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A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang]

an species (Myliobatis aquila) is called also whip ray, and miller. -- Electric ray, or Cramp ray, a torpedo. -- Starry ray, a common European skate (Raia radiata). -- Sting ray, any one of numerous species of rays of the family Trygonidæ having one or more large, sharp, barbed dorsal spines on the whiplike tail. Ca…

A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.

of the other, who is coming up on foot. Fielding. -- To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail. -- To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor…

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.

also rubstone. Rub iron, an iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much.

rins and sakers. Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. Hawthorne.

A writing master. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.

Sitting, as a lion or other beast. Sejant rampant, sitting with the forefeet lifted up. Wright.

erve the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay.

To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.]

The grampus.

A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

ace, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa. He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed. Lyttelton.

A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. M. Green.

The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

k; I will wait till next week. He . . . came till an house. Chaucer. Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo. Tennyson. Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end. Prof. Wilson. Till now, to the present time. -- Till then, to th…

A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.