Sentence Examples with the word Rams


Ewes as well as rams generally have short horns, and the wool is long and very fine.

The majority of the true mountain breeds are horned, the males only in the cases of Cheviot, Herdwick, Penistone and Welsh, though most Cheviot and many Herdwick rams are hornless.

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They were gradually, like the Cotswolds, improved from the original type of slow-maturity sheep by selection in preference to the use of rams of the Improved Leicester breed.

The rams sometimes have small, curved, wide horns like those of the Cheviot ram.

Its superior qualities in wool and mutton production have been fully demonstrated, and a demand for rams is springing up in S.


The movement of S is obtained by means of a relay engine, in which there are two rams of different diameters; a constant pressure is always acting on the smaller of these when the motor is at work, while the governor (or handpower if desired) admits or exhausts pressurewater from the face of the other, and the movements to and fro thus given to the two rams alter the position of the stud S, and thus change the stroke of the plungers of the main engine.

Breeders of Lincoln rams like best a darkish face, with a few black spots on the ears; and white legs.

Owing to the difficulty of securing a durable motor with a simple and trustworthy means of automatically regulating the quantity of water used to the power needed at various times from the motor, not much advance has been recently made in the use of water motors with reciprocating rams or pistons.