rammel
/ˈraml/Now Scottish and English regional (chiefly northern and midlands )
noun
1Small stunted trees or bushes collectively; a thicket. Now Scottish.
2Broken bricks or stones, rubble; waste material; (more generally) rubbish. Now English regional.
3Shale, occurring in a thin stratum, often found just above the coal seam.
Origin
Middle English (in an earlier sense). Probably partly from Anglo-Norman ramail, ramaile, ramayle, ramale, Anglo-Norman and Old French ramayl, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ramaille (French regional ramaille) branches, loppings from rame branch + -aille, and partly from Old French, Middle French ramelle branches from rame branch + -elle.
- marginal value
- marginate
- margination
- margin call
- margin clerk
- margined
- Marginella
- Marginellas
- marginellid
- marginelliform
- marginicidal
- marginiform
- marginless
- margin money
- margin of error
- margin of safety
- margin release
- margin-release key
- margin shell
- margo
- margosa
- margravate
- margrave
- margraviate
- margravine