rampick, a. Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈræmpɪk)
Also 6–7 ran-, 9 dial. raun-; 6 ranpike.
[Of obscure origin: cf. rampike.]
Of a tree or bough: Partially decayed or dead; bare of leaves or twigs.
| 1593 Drayton Ecl. i. 23 Rowland, leaning on a Ranpike Tree. [Margin. A tree with age beginning to decay at the top.] 1594 Barnfield Affect. Sheph. xxvii, When their fleeces gin to waxen rough, He combs and trims them with a rampicke bough. 1627 Drayton Agincourt, etc. 181 The night-Crow sometimes, you might see, Croking to sit vpon some Ranpick-tree. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss., Raunpick, bare of bark or flesh, looking as if pecked by ravens. |
So ˈrampicked a. = rampiked.
| 1836 Wilbraham Chesh. Gloss., A Rampicked tree is a stag-headed tree. |