rampike

[ ram-pahyk ]

nounChiefly Canadian.
  1. a dead tree, especially the bleached skeleton or splintered trunk of a tree killed by fire, lightning, or wind.

Origin of rampike

1
First recorded in 1585–95; origin unknown
  • Also called ram·pick [ram-pik], /ˈræmˌpɪk/, ram·pole [ram-pohl]. /ˈræmˌpoʊl/.

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How to use rampike in a sentence

  • The hollow was thick with young spruce and white birch, clustered about a single tall and massive rampike.

    The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. Roberts
  • She could see, in a broken fashion, to the very foot of the rampike, across which lay a huge fallen trunk.

    The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. Roberts
  • And she found the small-headed swift-footed stag scratching himself against a bare oak rampike.

  • From the cape of rock towered a bleak, storm-whitened rampike, which had been a pine tree before the lightning smote it.

    The Heart of the Ancient Wood | Charles G. D. Roberts
  • As for the meat, rampike and Steve could help him bring that in, later on.

    Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! | Clive Phillipps-Wolley