Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranpike
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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