"Ram down" Quotes from Famous Books 
 
 
  ... seen a maiden? I mean what our paviours call a maiden, a thing with which they ram down the paving-stones in the roads. A maiden of this kind is made altogether of wood, broad below, and girt round with iron rings; at the top she is narrow, and has a stick passed across through her waist; and this stick forms the arms of ...  — What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen |