To rise by climbing or shooting up, as a plant; run or grow up rapidly; spring up in growth.To rise for a leap or in leaping, as a wild beast; rear or spring up; prepare for or make a spring; jump violently. See rampant.To move with violent leaps or starts; jump or dash about; hence, to act passionately or violently; rage; storm; behave with insolence.To spring about or along gaily; frolic; gambol; flirt; romp. See romp.To hustle; rob with violence.To bend upward, as a piece of iron, to adapt it to the woodwork of a gate or the like.n. A leap; a spring; a bound.n. A rising passage or road; specifically (military), a gradual slope or ascent from the interior level of a fortification to the general level behind the parapet.n. In masonry and carpentry, a concave bend or slope in the cap or upper member of any piece of ascending or descending workmanship, as in the coping of a wall; the concave sweep that connects the higher and lower parts of a railing at a half- or quarter-pace.n. In architecture, etc., any slope or inclined plane, particularly an inclined plane affording communication between a higher and a lower level.n. A coarse, frolicsome woman; a jade; a romp.n. The garden rampion, or its root.n. A highwayman; a robber.n. In the game of pin-pool, a stroke by which all the pins but the center one are knocked down. A player making a ramp at any stage of the game wins the pool.Ramping; leaping; furiously swift or rushing.In architecture, to ascend or descend from one level to another: said of a wall.To be greedy, and noisy; to rampage.Mil., to make ramps on, as a bank or wall; furnish with ramps.n. An inclined traveling platform or carrier for transferring freight from a boat to a dock or warehouse.