So he dozed off pretty soon. by and by i got the old split-bottom chair and clumb up as easy as i could, not to make any noise, and got down the gun. i slipped the ramrod down it to make sure it was loaded, then i laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir. and how slow and still the time did drag along. study the context of the word ramrod. what is the meaning of it in this excerpt?

In this passage, we learn that a ramrod was used to load a gun, or to make sure that it was loaded. We can conclude this based on the context of the word in this example. This conclusion would be right. A ramrod is a metal or wooden device that is used to push the projectile against the propellant when dealing with muzzleoading firearms. Therefore, it was used with weapons such as muskets and cannons.

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.