rampike
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rampike
First recorded in 1585–95; origin unknown
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"The vein runs out on the face of a cliff, 'bout forty paces from the first rampike pine; there's three or four rampikes, but the fire hadn't gone far into the bush."
From The Lure of the North by Harold Bindloss
She could see, in a broken fashion, to the very foot of the rampike, across which lay a huge fallen trunk.
From The Backwoodsmen by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
When the moon rose, round and white and all-revealing, and threw sinister shadows from rampike and rock, he kept to the densest thickets and felt oppressed with strangeness.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Light-footed as a cat, the girl leapt aside, just in time, darted over the fallen trunk, and dodged around the base of the rampike.
From The Backwoodsmen by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The hollow was thick with young spruce and white birch, clustered about a single tall and massive rampike.
From The Backwoodsmen by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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