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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.
1853S. Strickland Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West II. 198 The recently burnt fallow, with its blackened stumps and rampikes did not contribute much to improve the landscape. 1865in Warwicksh. Gloss. (1896) Ranpike or Raunpike, a tree beginning to decay at the top from age, and having bare dead branches in consequence. 1881W. F. Rae Newfoundl. to Manitoba iii. 93 The sight of these bare and lifeless poles is a common one here; the poles are termed ‘rampikes’. 1894C. Phillipps-Wolley Gold, Gold in Cariboo 90 Cruel fire-hardened rampikes, which tore the skin to rags. 1908C. Mair Through Mackenzie Basin 146 The ‘rampike’ country would be..converted from a burnt-wood region to a bare one. 1936J. Masefield Letter from Pontus 19 With blackened rampikes from old forest fires. 1955Jrnl. Canad. Ling. Assoc. Oct. 6 Apparent survivals from various Scottish and English dialects, such as bultow, drake, glitter, knap, rampike. 1961R. M. Patterson Buffalo Head vi. 220 There they stood—three gaunt, upstanding rampikes of charcoal with the humus burnt away from their roots.
Hence ˈrampiked (8 ran-, 9 rawn-) a., of the nature of a rampike.
1775T. Campbell Diary in Napier Johnsoniana (1884) 246 The trees were stunted and ranpiked, as they call it in Ireland. 1875T. E. Paget Student Penitent vii, One of the old oaks in his park—erect and majestic even in decay, though scathed and rawnpiked and leafless. |