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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A standing dead tree or tree stump, especially one killed by fire.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See rampick.

Wiktionary

  1. n. dated, regional A standing dead tree.

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Gran simply nodded as she stood as straight as a rampike, her hands folded.”

    Simon & Schuster: Secret of the Night Ponies

  • “For miles and miles, we see nothing against the clear blue sky but the spiry tops of evergreens; or perhaps, a gigantic skeleton, "a rampike," pine or hemlock, scathed and spectral, stretches its gaunt outline above its fellows.”

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses

  • “The vein runs out on the face of a cliff, 'bout forty paces from the first rampike pine; there's three or four rampikes, but the fire hadn't gone far into the bush.”

    The Lure of the North

  • “When the moon rose, round and white and all-revealing, and threw sinister shadows from rampike and rock, he kept to the densest thickets and felt oppressed with strangeness.”

    The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life

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  • chained_bear I had no idea there was a word for "standing dead tree." Who knew I had a rampike in my yard? Thanks, freerice! May 15, 2008

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