To Ramp. v.n. [ramper, French; rampare, Italian; ꞃmpn, Saxon.]

1. To leap with violence. Foaming tarr, their bridles they would champ,
   And trampling the fine element, would fiercely ramp. F. Q.

                   Out of the thickest wood
   A ramping lyon rushed suddenly,
   Hunting full greedy after savage blood. Fairy Queen.

   They gape upon me with their mouths; as a ramping and roaring lion. Psalm xxii.13.

   Upon a bull, that deadly bellowed,
   Two horrid lions rampt, and seiz'd, and tugg'd off. Chapm.

   Sporting the lion ramp'd; and in his paw
   Dandled the kid. Milton.

2. To climb as a plant.

   Furnished with claspers and tendrils, they catch hold of them, and so ramping upon trees, they mount up to a great height. Ray on the Creation.