Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scraping; shaving.
- noun In botany, same as
ramentum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A scraping; a shaving.
- noun (Bot.) Ramenta.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
scraping ; ashaving .
Etymologies
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Latin ramenta.
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Examples
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Upon my word, you give me a combustible tempe - rament which I do not possess; and if you judge of me, in this particular, from yourself, I give your lordship joy of the very great advantage you have over me.
Letters of the Late Lord Littelton Baron Thomas Lyttelton Lyttelton , William Combe 1812
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