rampike

American  

[ram-pahyk] / ˈræmˌpaɪk /

noun

Chiefly Canadian.

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

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Etymology

Origin of rampike

First recorded in 1585–95; origin unknown

Example Sentences

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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Typographical errors corrected in text: Page 61:  siegneurial replaced with seigneurial Page 84:  protuding replaced with protruding Interesting words in this document: A rampike is an erect broken or dead tree.

From The Old Front Line by Masefield, John

Slipping furtively from rampike to rampike, now creeping, now worming his way like a snake, he made good time down to the very edge of the level.

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Hain't had no time tew disputate,   Except with axe an' arm, With stump an' rampike and with stuns,   Upon my half clar'd farm.

From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Crawford, Isabella Valancy