rampike
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rampike
First recorded in 1585–95; origin unknown
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
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
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