ramp

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An inclined surface or roadway connecting different levels.
• noun A mobile staircase by which passengers board and leave an aircraft.
• noun A concave bend of a handrail where a sharp change in level or direction occurs, as at a stair landing.
• intransitive verb To rush around or act in a threatening or violent manner.
• intransitive verb To assume a threatening stance, as in rearing up on hindlegs.
• intransitive verb Heraldry To stand in the rampant position.
• noun A plant (Allium tricoccum) of the eastern United States having small bulbs and young leaves that are edible and have a pungent onionlike flavor.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To rise by climbing or shooting up, as a plant; run or grow up rapidly; spring up in growth.
• To rise for a leap or in leaping, as a wild beast; rear or spring up; prepare for or make a spring; jump violently. See rampant.
• To move with violent leaps or starts; jump or dash about; hence, to act passionately or violently; rage; storm; behave with insolence.
• To spring about or along gaily; frolic; gambol; flirt; romp. See romp.
• To hustle; rob with violence.
• To bend upward, as a piece of iron, to adapt it to the woodwork of a gate or the like.
• noun An inclined traveling platform or carrier for transferring freight from a boat to a dock or warehouse.
• In architecture, to ascend or descend from one level to another: said of a wall.
• To be greedy, and noisy; to rampage.
• Mil., to make ramps on, as a bank or wall; furnish with ramps.
• Ramping; leaping; furiously swift or rushing.
• noun A leap; a spring; a bound.
• noun A rising passage or road; specifically (military), a gradual slope or ascent from the interior level of a fortification to the general level behind the parapet.
• noun In masonry and carpentry, a concave bend or slope in the cap or upper member of any piece of ascending or descending workmanship, as in the coping of a wall; the concave sweep that connects the higher and lower parts of a railing at a half- or quarter-pace.
• noun In architecture, etc., any slope or inclined plane, particularly an inclined plane affording communication between a higher and a lower level.
• noun A coarse, frolicsome woman; a jade; a romp.
• noun The garden rampion, or its root.
• noun A highwayman; a robber.
• noun In the game of pin-pool, a stroke by which all the pins but the center one are knocked down. A player making a ramp at any stage of the game wins the pool.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
• noun Prov. Eng. A highwayman; a robber.
• noun obsolete A romping woman; a prostitute.
• noun Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
• noun A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
• noun (Fort.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
• intransitive verb To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
• intransitive verb To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
• intransitive verb To climb, as a plant; to creep up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
• noun Appalachia A promiscuous man or woman; a general insult for a worthless person.
• noun An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
• noun aviation A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an airliner at an airport.
• noun skating A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
• verb To behave violently; to rage.
• verb To stand in a rampant position.
• verb intransitive To change value, often at a steady rate

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb creep up -- used especially of plants
• noun an inclined surface connecting two levels
• verb stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
• verb furnish with a ramp