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LittleBrit | 16:09 Tue 06th Sep 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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24d. Putting a penny on farm butter is a swindle (4) ?a?p

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ramp

farm butter is a ram - p

16:26 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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Cheers!
16:31 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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a ramp is a swindle never heard that one before what part of the world are you from Gill?
18:02 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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Judith, to 'ramp' has meant to 'snatch' since the 1500s. It took on the slang meaning of to 'grab illegally'...ie swindle...in the early 19th century. The original meaning seems to have disappeared.

18:09 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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Well I never Quizmonster, thanks. You learn something new everyday!

18:11 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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I just found the solution to the crossword and it is indeed 'ramp'! Thanks all.
18:18 Tue 06th Sep 2005
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Judith 1

I did not know it before I worked out the clue. You learn something every day!

In Collins dictionary a ramp - swindle esp. one involving exorbitant prices (Brit. slang)

I'm from England

09:11 Wed 07th Sep 2005
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Gill1941 So am I!

14:27 Wed 07th Sep 2005

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