Brewer's: Ram

The usual prize at wrestling matches. Thus Chaucer says of his Mellere, “At wrastlynge he wolde bere away the ram.” (Canterbury Tales: Prologue 550.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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