Seems plausible in American history.

Fun fact 2: in French it's other way around. The male sheep is a -bélier-and for the verb we have another noun which is also - bélier-but now it's an object used to ram something in. For example : "the gangsters used a voiture-bêlier (a Ramming car) to force their entry to the bank''. The word bélier comes from the flemish word Bel which means bell because the male sheep had the bell around its neck. The astrology sign Aries is also called bélier in French but that came much more recently as the Latin word aries was used in old French too for both the sign and the animal.