Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lamprey. Also
rampereel . - noun A ruffian who infests race-courses.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
rampart . - noun A turnpike road.
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Examples
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A man who is a racecourse thief and "ramper" hailed me affably.
The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary James Runciman 1871
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These are my beliefs, but I should suffix them with the waiver that it may fold (obviously, as might most potential multi-baggers) to avoid chants of 'ramper' ...
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Do we not see skill of Phisicke the best ramper to our often assaulted bodies, being abused, teach poyon the most violent destroyer?
Defence of Poesie 1992
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_II y a toujours en nous quelque chose qui veut ramper_, said Pere de
The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart
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'When I canters my herse along the ramper, I' ears "proputty, proputty, proputty"'; and again Tennyson achieved a triumph of characterization.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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L'Abbe et le Rabbin, and Essai sur l'art de ramper, a l'usage des courtisans.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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She always spoke of Lem as the "little chap," though he was in fact precisely of a height with his brother; and she gave as the reason for the preference, that "the little chap wasn't a ramper."
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884
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Expressions basses, & fait ramper le fort avec le foible.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) Henry Gally 1732
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"I can fly to the time of day," the Delectable Dyke answered, "Don't think you're puckering me, ramper king."
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"I can fly to the time of day," the Delectable Dyke answered, "Don't think you're puckering me, ramper king."
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