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Projection fixed to the front end of a fighting vessel and designed to damage enemy ships struck by it.
It may have been developed by the Egyptians as early as 1200 BC, but it was most commonly used on Phoenician, Greek, and Roman battering ram .
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battering ram
Roy Ram Mohun
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