Definition of Ranpike

1. rampike [n -S] - See also: rampike

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranpike

rankly
rankness
ranknesses
ranks
rankshift
rankshifted
rankshifting
rankshifts
rann
rannels
rannies
ranns
ranny
ranolazine
ranpike (current term)
ranpikes
ransack
ransacked
ransacker
ransackers
ransacking
ransacks
ransel
ransels
ranseur
ranseurs
ransom
ransom money
ransomable

Literary usage of Ranpike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"In N'hamp. it means unruly and restive, as applied to a horse. In Oxf. a ' randy' = a jovial feast. ranpike or ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"Fluently ; readily ; without hesitation. Norfolk. RANNY. A shrew-mouse. Suffolk. Browne has the term in his ' Vulgar Errors.' ranpike. ..."

3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"'ranpike') means a tree beginning to decay at the top; a young tree stripped of boughs and bark (EDD.). rap, to affect with rapture, to transport, ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... each tree, and every flood, Highly rejoicing in this goodly tide : Save Rowland, leaning on a ranpike ; tree, Wasted with age, forlorn with woe was he. ..."

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