The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ramage \Ram"age\ (r[a^]m"[asl]j; 48), n. [F., fr. L. ramus a branch.]
Boughs or branches. [Obs.]
--Crabb.Warbling of birds in trees. [Obs.]
--Drummond.
Ramage \Ra*mage"\ (r[.a]*m[=a]j"), a. Wild; untamed. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) wild; untamed n. 1 Boughs or branches. 2 Warbling of birds in trees.
Wikipedia
Ramage is the surname of several notable people, including:
- Henry Ramage (approx. 1827–1854), Scottish Victoria Cross recipient
- James D. Ramage US Navy Rear Admiral
- John Ramage (1748–1802), Irish-American painter
- Lawson P. Ramage (1909–1990), a Vice Admiral and noted submarine commander during World War II
- Peter Ramage (born 1983), an English football (soccer) player
- Rob Ramage (born 1959), a Canadian ice hockey player
- Rob Ramage (born 1961), Canadian president of CARA Airline Solutions
- Robert Ramage (1865−1925), Australian jockey
It may also refer to:
- USS Ramage (DDG-61), a guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy
- Nicholas Ramage, a character in Dudley Pope's Ramage series of historical novels
- Ramage (novel), first in the Ramage series of historical novels
Ramage is the first novel in the Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope. It is set during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in the series during the Napoleonic wars.
Usage examples of "ramage".
The powder and muskets had been moved and the St Brieucs and St Cast were given the best house while Ramage, Yorke, Southwick and Bowen shared another.
Ramage taking Jackson, Yorke accompanied by Stafford and Bowen with Rossi.
With thy green mother in some shady grove, When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.
Once out of the lee of the quay the wind was fresher, as Ramage had anticipated, and while the men sheeted home the sail and braced the yard the zebec gathered way and he could hear the crisp bubbling of the water round the stern.
When Ramage described how the two frigates had gone aground on the shoal, the Admiral sniffed but made no comment.
Ramage said, relieved that the Admiral had not added a stronger condemnation about him going aground, a factor which had seemed to absorb him, at least temporarily.
Ramage that December was approaching, although there was enough sun to remind him that Cartagena was in Spain, with the usual piles of stinking refuse lying about in the streets, a happy hunting ground for flies and beggars and packs of miserable, emaciated dogs.
But there had been thirty-two sail of the line and sixteen frigates in the Fleet a few hours before they reached Cartagena, which was the last time Ramage had been able to count them.
Ramage forgot Sir John knew nothing of his escape from Cartagena, he was startled by the effect of his bald answer.
Ramage watched the dogvanes, a string of corks on a stick, each cork with white feathers stuck into it.
Ramage had decided to continue in that direction because Colon had covered all the flat areas flanking the track from San Ildefonso to the point where he was captured.
Ramage could see that the jibboom and bowsprit that be had been aiming for was now pointing at the mainshrouds of the second ship and in a few moments would catch them as though the ship was a lancer lunging at a passing bush.
Ramage thought of the ship of the line they had encountered earlier in the day: please, no damage to the jibboom and bowsprit!
And the jibboom and bowsprit were still standing, with no damage apparent from where Ramage stood.
Ramage felt he was in no hurry to get to the flagship: he was tired of the Admiral Rudds of this world, devious men who never said what they really thought, and who never thought fairly in any case.