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Ramp   /ræmp/   Listen
noun
Ramp  n.  
1.
A leap; a spring; a hostile advance. "The bold Ascalonite Fled from his lion ramp."
2.
A highwayman; a robber. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
A romping woman; a prostitute. (Obs.)
4.
(Arch.)
(a)
Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
(b)
A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
5.
(Fort.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.


verb
Ramp  v. i.  (past & past part. ramped; pres. part. ramping)  
1.
To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
2.
To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence. "Their bridles they would champ, And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp."
3.
To climb, as a plant; to creep up. "With claspers and tendrils, they (plants) catch hold,... and so ramping upon trees, they mount up to a great height."





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"Ramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... swallowed the tender-truck, and them. The vehicle stopped. An elevator accepted them and lifted an indefinite distance through the night, toward the stars. A sort of gangplank with a canvas siderail reached out across emptiness. Cochrane crossed it, and found himself at the bottom of a spiral ramp inside the rocket's passenger-compartment. A stewardess looked at the tickets. She led ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... are in the Prefecture, a coldly handsome building of the eighteenth century, and there, in a majestic stone vestibule, beneath the gilded ramp of a great festal staircase, we waited in anxious suspense, among the orderlies and estafettes, while our unusual request was considered. The result of the deliberation, was an expression of regret: nothing could ...
— Fighting France - From Dunkerque to Belport • Edith Wharton
... way with infinite care through the hordes of ex-soldiers clamoring for passage back to the multitudinous planets from which they had come. Then he slowly climbed the heavy ramp ...
— The Stutterer • R.R. Merliss
... peered over. The lower ramp of the wall sloped steeply, but all the way up the sharp southwest corner the stones were broken out, and a goat, or a very active man could ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy
... Hardy, take two bugles out of the chest, and then take these lads—What's your name, boys? Eh? Scudamore? A vera gude name—take them over to Corporal Skinner, he will be practicing with the others on the ramp." ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty


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