rame
A stalk or branch, especially when dried.
Noun
- A stalk or branch, especially when dried.
- Twice in thy pleasant year the wattles crown With golden down Their somber rames, and with the gums' stiff leaves A dusk-white fragrant bloom May interweaves - 1886, Thomas Heney, Fortunate Days:
- A framework or skeleton.
- The bones of the body; skeleton.
Origin
From late Middle English rame, from or akin to Middle Dutch raem, rame (“framework, frame”), from Old Dutch *hrama, from Proto-West Germanic *hramu (“frame, support”). Possible doublet of frame.
Forms
Noun Scotland
- A remark or complaint repeated incessantly.
- "Does he ever mention the king in his prayer?" "O yes: always." "What does he say about him?" "Something about the sceptre of righteousness, and the standard of truth. I ken he has some rhame about him." - 1818, James...
Origin
From Northern Middle English ramen (“to cry out, scream”), from Old English *hrāmian, from Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraimōną (“to scream”), *hraimaz (“a scream”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerey- (“to scream, screech”). Cognate with Old Norse hreimr (“a scream, cry”), and possibly to Old English hrēam (“a cry, outcry, tumult, noise”).
Forms
Verb
- To complain or cry incessantly.
- The münelicht sea—It rugs at the he'rt o' me, An' rames an' rames eternally. - 1936, J. G. Horne, Flooer o' the ling:
- To talk nonsensically.
- Yiss, ramin, ravin mad at Betty sood be abune her edder wan wye or da idder. - 1919, Thomas Manson, Humours of a Peat Commission: