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ramparting

ramparting is the present participle and gerund of rampart.

Meaning of rampart

Verb

rampart (third-person singular simple present ramparts, present participle ramparting, simple past and past participle ramparted)

  1. To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.
    • Those grassy Hills, those glitt’ring Dells
      Proudly ramparted with rocks1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode_on_the_Departing_Year_-_Coleridge_(1796)) (pamphlet), Bristol, page 14

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Questions about ramparting

What is ramparting the present participle and gerund of?
Ramparting is the present participle and gerund of rampart.

Words near ramparting in the dictionary

  1. rampant
  2. rampantly
  3. rampantness
  4. rampart
  5. ramparted
  6. ramparting
  7. rampartless
  8. rampartlike
  9. ramparts
  10. rampauge
  11. rampauged

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