Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A standing dead tree or tree stump, especially one killed by fire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
rampick .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated, regional A
standing dead tree .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Gran simply nodded as she stood as straight as a rampike, her hands folded.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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Gran simply nodded as she stood as straight as a rampike, her hands folded.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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Gran simply nodded as she stood as straight as a rampike, her hands folded.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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For miles and miles, we see nothing against the clear blue sky but the spiry tops of evergreens; or perhaps, a gigantic skeleton, "a rampike," pine or hemlock, scathed and spectral, stretches its gaunt outline above its fellows.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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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."
The Lure of the North Harold Bindloss 1905
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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.
The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
chained_bear commented on the word rampike
I had no idea there was a word for "standing dead tree." Who knew I had a rampike in my yard? Thanks, freerice!
May 15, 2008
qms commented on the word rampike
We Wordniks, well-mannered though droll,
Have wearied of Spamski the Troll.
When a hideous spam spike
Stands out like a rampike
Please, Erin, quick chop down that Pole.
April 28, 2016
bilby commented on the word rampike
Bravo!
April 28, 2016