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▪ I. † ramass, n. Sc. Obs. rare—1.
[a. F. ramas (1549) heap, collection, etc., f. ramasser: see next.]
A summary, résumé.
1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 32 This ramasse of these reasons in the bygone discourse being thus made.
▪ II. † ramass, v.1 Obs.
Also 7 remass, ramash, rammass.
[ad. F. ramasser (1539), f. re- re- + amasser amass.]
trans. To gather together.
1589Hakluyt Voy. To Rdr. *3 b, Those wearie volumes..most vntruly and vnprofitablie ramassed and hurled together. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 199 Phillip..had ramassed one of the fayrest Armies..that ever was seene in France. 1650T. Vaughan Anthroposophia 54 If I will but ramash all that be. 1659World in Moon (Halliwell, s.v.), When they have ramast many of several kindes and tastes..they open one vessel, and then another.
▪ III. ramass, v.2 rare.
Forms: 6 ramassh, 8 rammass.
[ad. F. ramasser (1606), f. ramasse sledge of branches, ad. It. ramazza, f. ramo, L. rāmus branch.]
trans. To convey on a sledge of branches such as is used in certain parts of the Alps for descending snow slopes.
1511Sir R. Guylforde Pilgr. (Camden) 80 From the hyght of the mounte downe to Lyuyngborugh I was ramasshed, whiche is a right straunge thynge. 1792A. Young Trav. France 257 When arrived at the precipice..the mule is dismissed, and the rammassing begins. |