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Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

ess with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Luke xix. 48.

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

e teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

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To surround with a rampart or wall. Johnson.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

A heavy footstep; a tramp.

In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

To tread or trample under foot. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu -- Con`cul*ca"tion (, n. [Obs.]

To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.

Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in. The Trojans coopet within their walls so long. Dryden. The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. Locke.

A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.

The grampus.