Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of ramp.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The cuckoopint.

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Examples

  • Essential ingredients, many of which can now be found on Staten Island, include curry leaves, lemongrass, rampe, and coconut served up every which way, from creams to powders to vinegar made from the fermented juice of coconut palm leaves.

    The New York Public Library: How to Cook Sri Lankan With Cabbage The New York Public Library 2011

  • By announing a timetable, he has set himself and our military up for horrendous consequences -- In year #3 the attacks from Al Quaeda will rampe up

    Obama ally breaks with him on Afghanistan 2009

  • Essential ingredients, many of which can now be found on Staten Island, include curry leaves, lemongrass, rampe, and coconut served up every which way, from creams to powders to vinegar made from the fermented juice of coconut palm leaves.

    The New York Public Library: How to Cook Sri Lankan With Cabbage The New York Public Library 2011

  • Three centuries later, John Milton contributed to its meaning of crawling upward: ''Surely the Prelates would have Saint Pauls words rampe one over another, as they use to clime into their Livings and Bishopricks.''

    "She seems like a real fighter, someone who would stick it to the lobbyist and special-interest groups that have run ramped in Washington." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Three centuries later, John Milton contributed to its meaning of crawling upward: “Surely the Prelates would have Saint Pauls words rampe one over another, as they use to clime into their Livings and Bish-opricks.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Three centuries later, John Milton contributed to its meaning of crawling upward: “Surely the Prelates would have Saint Pauls words rampe one over another, as they use to clime into their Livings and Bish-opricks.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • L'acteur refuse d'abord, puis, souriant, il s'avance au bord de la rampe: "Messieurs, dit-il, je vous ai appelés imbéciles -- c'est vrai: je vous fais mes excuses -- j'ai tort."

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • Connecting the end of the platform toward the mixing plant was a rampe or inclined platform mounted on wheels.

    Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

  • They played just as well at one end of a drawing-room, with a rampe of flowers only separating them from the public, as in their own theatre with all the help of scenery, acoustics, and distance.

    My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914

  • Douglas watched him mounting the famous staircase of the house, with its marvellous _rampe_, bought under the Bourbon Restoration from one of the historic chateaux of France; and, suddenly, the young man felt his heart gripped.

    Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885

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