rampike

[ ram-pahyk ]

noun

, Chiefly Canadian.

1. a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rampike¹

First recorded in 1585–95; origin unknown

Example Sentences

The hollow was thick with young spruce and white birch, clustered about a single tall and massive rampike.

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She could see, in a broken fashion, to the very foot of the rampike, across which lay a huge fallen trunk.

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And she found the small-headed swift-footed stag scratching himself against a bare oak rampike.

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From the cape of rock towered a bleak, storm-whitened rampike, which had been a pine tree before the lightning smote it.

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As for the meat, Rampike and Steve could help him bring that in, later on.

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