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The term "rammer" has been used on this site, is this an English term?
I think it's a modern version based on the term "ramrod". I've never seen the term in any historical documents. I don't recall seeing "ramrod" either but I could easily be wrong. The most common historical term that I've seen is "wiping stick".
 
I think it's a modern version based on the term "ramrod". I've never seen the term in any historical documents. I don't recall seeing "ramrod" either but I could easily be wrong. The most common historical term that I've seen is "wiping stick".
 

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I think it's a modern version based on the term "ramrod". I've never seen the term in any historical documents. I don't recall seeing "ramrod" either but I could easily be wrong. The most common historical term that I've seen is "wiping stick".
I’ve never run across the term “wiping stick” being used for the ramrod in a primary source. In the 17th century, the ramrod is called the “scouring stick” in the English version of deGehyn’s “Wappenhandlinge” (“The Exercise of Armes”). General Bland (1743), General Harvey (1764) and General Von Steuben (1778) all use “rammer.”
I’ve always understood “wiping stick” to refer to the cleaning rod, often with a spring worm attached, as seen carried separately from the rifle in some of Miller’s paintings.
Jay
 

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