Definition of "rampire" [ram•pire]

• A rampart. (noun)
• To fortify with a rampart; to form into a rampart. (verb)

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• "For let no man thinke that culuerin or demy-canon can sufficiently batter a defensible rampire: and of those pieces which we had; the better of the demy-canons at the second shot brake in her carriages, so as the battery was of lesse force, being but of three pieces."
• "Amongst the diggers, pioneers, and rampire-builders, I will do as did"
• "The Britains in those daies (as Cesar writeth) called that a towne or hold, which they had fortified with anie thicke combersome wood, with trench and rampire, into the which they vsed to get themselues for the auoiding of inuasion."