Defn: To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with
rocks. Coleridge.
Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and
not as a fieldpiece.
RAMPE
Rampe, n. Etym: [In allusion to its supposed aphrodisiac qualities.
See Ramp.] (Bot.)
Defn: The cuckoopint.
RAMPIER
Ram"pier, n.
Defn: See Rampart. [Obs.]
RAMPION
Ram"pi*on, n. Etym: [Cf. F. raiponce, Sp. ruiponce, reponche, L.
raperonzo, NL. rapuntium, fr. L. rapum, rapa, a turnip, rape. Cf.
Rape a plant.] (Bot.)
Defn: A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; — also called ramps.
Note: The name is sometimes given to plants of the genus Phyteuma, herds of the Bellflower family, and to the American evening primrose (Enothera biennis), which has run wild in some parts of Europe.
RAMPIRE
Ram"pire, n.
Defn: A rampart. [Archaic]
The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. Dryden.