rampike
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rampike
First recorded in 1585–95; origin unknown
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
"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 Bindloss, Harold
The shout came from some distance off and while he tried to locate the spot a rampike slanted over and broke off.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold
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