different between ramson vs buckram

English

Alternative forms

• ramps, ramsh (Scotland)

Etymology

Back-formation from ramsons; compare Middle English ramson (originally plural, taken as singular); Old English hramesan, plural of hramsa (“onion, broad-leafed garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramus?, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion, leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kermus-, *kremus- (“wild garlic”). Cognate with Scots ramps (“wild garlic”), Dutch rams (“ramson”), Danish rams (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“wild garlic”). See buckrams.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æms?n/

Noun

ramson (plural ramsons)

1. A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.

Synonyms

• (Allium ursinum): buckram, wild garlic

Translations

See also

• ramp

Anagrams

• Armons, Manors, Marons, Marson, Ransom, Romans, Rosman, manors, morans, mornas, normas, ransom, sarmon

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ramesen, rampson, rampsoun, ramsen, ramsoun, ramsyn

Etymology

The old plural of ramese (from Old English hramsa (“ramsons”)) taken as a singular.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ram(p)s?n/

Noun

ramson (plural ramsons)

1. ramsons (Allium ursinum)

   Synonyms: affodill, ramese

Descendants

• English: ramson, ramsons

References

• “ramsen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k??m/

Etymology 1

From Middle English bukeram (“fine linen”), from Anglo-Norman bokeram, from Old French boquerant, bougherant (“fine cloth”), bougueran, probably ultimately from Bokhara, a city in southeastern Uzbekistan.

Noun

buckram (usually uncountable, plural buckrams)

1. A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, p. 557

     Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.

Translations

Verb

buckram (third-person singular simple present buckrams, present participle buckraming, simple past and past participle buckramed or buckrammed)

1. (transitive) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from earlier buckrams, from buck +? ramps, ramsh (“wild garlic, ramson”). Compare Danish ramsløg (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“bear garlic, ramson”).

Alternative forms

• buckrams

Noun

buckram (plural buckrams)

1. A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.

See also

• ramp