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rampike
[ ram-pahyk ]
noun
- a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rampike1
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Example Sentences
The hollow was thick with young spruce and white birch, clustered about a single tall and massive rampike.
She could see, in a broken fashion, to the very foot of the rampike, across which lay a huge fallen trunk.
And she found the small-headed swift-footed stag scratching himself against a bare oak rampike.
From the cape of rock towered a bleak, storm-whitened rampike, which had been a pine tree before the lightning smote it.
As for the meat, Rampike and Steve could help him bring that in, later on.
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