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ramp [ramp] (engineering) A uniformly sloping platform, walkway, or driveway. A stairway which gives access to the main door of an airplane. (hydrology) An accumulation of snow forming an inclined plane between land or land ice and sea ice or shelf ice. Also known as drift ice foot. (mining engineering) A slope between levels in open-pit mining. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Under the great ramp to Mussoorie he drew himself together as an old hunter faces a well-remembered bank, and where he should have sunk exhausted swung his long draperies about him, drew a deep double-lungful of the diamond air, and walked as only a hillman can. |
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