*ramaillage, n.m., scraping off the hair (of skins).

*ramailler, v.a., to scrape off the hair of skins (before they are shamoyed).

ramaire, adj., (bot.) rameous.

ramas, n.m., collection, heap; set, troop, lot, omnium-gatherum, scrapings, rakings, sweepings. Un — de bandits; (fam.) a set of robbers.

ramasse, n.f., sledge (used on mountains).

ramassé, -e, adj., thick-set; squat; huddled up, gathered up; compact; (bot.) clustered. Corps —; thick-set body. Taille —e; squat figure.

ramasser, n.m., (l.u.) picking up. Cela ne vaut pas le —; (prov., fam.) that is not worth picking up, or (fig.) not worth troubling about.

ramasser, v.a., to collect, to gather, to get together, to rake together; to assemble; to pick up, to take up; (pop.) to belabor; to draw in (a mountain sledge). — toutes ses forces; to muster all one’s troops.

se ramasser, v.r., to assemble, to gather together; to be assembled; to roll itself up (animal); to pick one’s self up, to get up again, to be huddled up; to gather up one’s limbs.

ramasseur, n.m., gatherer, collector; mountain sledge-driver.