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Definition of Rampire
1. n. A rampart.
2. v. t. To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.
Definition of Rampire
1. Noun. A rampart. ¹
2. Verb. (archaic transitive) To fortify with a rampart; to form into a rampart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rampire
1. a flat-topped defensive mound [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rampire
Literary usage of Rampire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin (1810)
"It then appears to have been completed (from the Black Friars to the market gale)
quite to the top, making a strong rampire of earth and other materials, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"RAMPER, or rampire, s.—A metall'd high road, applied in these parts especially
to the ... Keep along the main rampire while you come to yon trees. RANGE, s. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"RAMPER, or rampire, 5.—A metall'd high road, applied in these parts especially
to the ... Keep along the main rampire while you come to yon trees. RANGE, s. ..."
4. Thesaurium Mathematicae: Or, The Treasury of the Mathematicks: Containing by John Taylor, William Alingham (1707)
"... fb wide as to fup- port the rampire from flipping into the Ditch, and is taken
from 3 to 10 Feet; the Mote or Ditch may be from 70 to no Feet, that is, ..."
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