RAMAGE


Meaning of RAMAGE in English

I. ramage adjective

Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, living in the branches of trees, wild, from ram, raim branch (from Latin ramus ) + -age (as in salvage savage) — more at ramify

obsolete : untamed , wild

II. ram·age ˈramij noun

( -s )

Etymology: French, from Old French, from ram, raim branch + -age

1. : the boughs or branches of a tree

2. : the cry of birds

grew from the ramage of birds to the hurry of wind — Hugh McCrae

3. : a genealogical tree of a segmentary unilateral descent group

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.