rampire
English
Noun
rampire (plural rampires)
- (archaic) A rampart.
- Dryden
- The Trojans round the place a rampire cast.
- Dryden
Verb
rampire (third-person singular simple present rampires, present participle rampiring, simple past and past participle rampired)
- (archaic, transitive) To fortify with a rampart; to form into a rampart.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)
- Robert Browning
- rampired walls of gold
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rampire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- rampier