rampike

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With stump an 'rampike and with stuns,

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  • The men of the first wave climbed up the parapets, in tumult, darkness, and the presence of death, and having done with all pleasant things, advanced across the No Man's Land to begin the Battle of the Somme THE END PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Typographical errors corrected in text Page 61: siegneurial replaced with seigneurial Page 84: protuding replaced with protruding Interesting words in this document A rampike is an erect broken or dead tree Eyrie is an alternate spelling for Aerie Tetter is a generic name for a number of skin diseases such as eczema, psoriasis, or herpes, characterized by eruptions and itching —  The Old Front Line
  • Next morning we passed through a like burnt country on both sides, giving the region a desolate and forlorn look, which placed it in sinister contrast with the same river to the north Farther up, the right bank rose bare to the sky-line with a mere sprinkling of small aspens, indicating what the appearance of the "rampike" country would be if again set ablaze, and converted from a burnt-wood region to a bare one. —  Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899
  • With stump an 'rampike and with stuns, —  Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems
  • | A rampike is an erect broken or dead tree. —  The Old Front Line
  • There's a rampike across the trail. " —  The Lure of the North
 

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/ˈræmˈpɪk, ræmpajk/
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