Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramper
Literary usage of Ramper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. French Roots and Their Families: A Synthetic Vocabulary Based Upon by Eugene Pellissier (1886)
"Rappe ramper (vn), Flem. rapen to creep, to crawl; to cringe. [same root] rampe (/.)
flight of steps ; bannisters ; slope ; foot-lights. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"ramper.—(i) The Ermine Street, the Roman way leading from Lindum, Lincoln, ...
ramper-jack was much used in former days, and is still occasionally employed ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"F. ramper, 'to creep, run, crawl, or traile itself along the ground ; also, ...
Scheler, following Diez, says that the old sense of F. ramper was to clamber ..."
4. The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English Dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1845)
"To creep (to behave with servility), ramper. To t-rfep, to creep on (to walk slowly
... I call that cringing, j'appelle cela ramper — taire des bassesses. ..."
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