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Definition of Rampike
1. a standing dead tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rampike
Literary usage of Rampike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington, Townsend Young (1871)
"... sword in hand, towards the rampike, where they had left Attorney W and Mr.
Delany in so novel a situation, and where they expected no loving reception. ..."
2. The Natural History of Some Common Animals: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"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 ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... a rampike,' pine or hemlock, scathed and spectral, stretches its gaunt outline
above its fellows. Spruces and firs, such as adorn our gardens, ..."
4. Twenty-seven Years in Canada West: Or, The Experience of an Early Settler by Samuel Strickland (1853)
"... for a stump forty feet high is not an uncommon sight. Many of these unsightly
ornaments are sharpened by the fire—henee the name of rampike. ..."
5. Russell's Magazine by Paul Hamilton Payne (1859)
"... or, perhaps, a gigantic skeleton, "a rampike," pine or hemlock, scathed and
spectral, stretching its gaunt outline above its fellows. ..."
6. Gold, Gold, in Cariboo: A Story of Adventure in British Columbia by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"Wal, come on, Ned," said rampike, breaking in upon this train of thought
suddenly, "I'm goin' to watch right here. It's mighty lucky as we came when we did. ..."
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