pole for breaking the doors in

[swedeheart]

Is there a word for that kind of huuuge pole (steady now, this ain't CB;-) that is sometimes utilised in history movies where a group of people have barricaded themselves in say a church and their enemies break the doors in by charging at them with this... well, tree almost...! ...except I'm looking for the correct term, if there is one?

The more terms the better, as it's really the Swedish word I'm looking for but don't know. But if you provide me with some terms in English, I may be able to find the Swedish word as a translation of yours.

[scotman]

Hi Swedeheart

Battering ram

[ljdksa]

battering ram?

[swedeheart]

Yup! Thanks, already found the translation too! :-D Thanks a lot!

[douglas9401]

murbräcka

[swedeheart]

Ha ha douglas, that is correct! You even got the dots right!

[scotman]

More

From OED

battering-ram.
[f. battering vbl. n. + ram. Cf. L. aries ram, battering-ram.]
1. An ancient military engine employed for battering down walls, consisting of a beam of wood, with a mass of iron at one end, sometimes in the form of a ram's head; (also fig.).
1611 Bible Ezek. iv. 2 Set battering rams against it round about [cf. Coverdale Ezek. xxi. 22 Batell-rammes].
1776 Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xiv. 330 The battering-rams had shaken the walls in several places.
1818 Bentham Ch. Eng. 55 In the hands of Lancaster_the Bible_worked as a battering-ram against the Established Church.
1840 Thirlwall Greece VII. lix. 344 Battering-rams, each 150 feet long.
2. transf. A blacksmith's hammer suspended and worked horizontally.
1864 in Webster.

[douglas9401]

Thanks, but some credit has to go to Google. :)

[swedeheart]

Oh so it really is a RAM ram - that's interesting, scotman:)

[swedeheart]

You disappoint me douglas, I thought you had just taken the crash course in Swedish;-)

[fourteen85]

Grond (According to JJR Tolkein)

[swedeheart]

Good word, fourteen! The awesome Grond http://tolkiengateway...eturn_of_the_King.jpg