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rampick
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.]...
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rampike
rampike dial. and N. Amer. (ˈræmpaɪk) Also 9 ran-, raun-. [Of obscure formation: the second element may be pike. Cf. rampick.] A decaying or dead tree; a spiky stump or stem of a tree. Also attrib.1853 S. Strickland Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West II. 198 The recently burnt fallow, with its blacke...
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rounsepike
† ˈrounsepike Obs. rare. In 5 rounse-, rownsepyk. [Of obscure origin: cf. rampike and rampick.] A leafless branch.1470–85 Malory Arthur vi. xvi. 209 Ouer his hede he sawe a rownsepyk, a bygge bough leueles. Ibid., Syr Launcelot putte aweye the stroke with the rounsepyk.
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