means A ramp is a wild North American leek (Allium tricoccum) with broad green leaves and a pungent garlic-onion flavor, prized as an early-spring foraged delicacy.

from From the Old English 'hramsa,' meaning wild garlic, which softened into the dialect word 'rams' or 'ramson' still used in Britain for the same plant. Appalachian settlers carried the name across the Atlantic, where it slimmed down to 'ramp' — so the word is a quiet linguistic fossil, an Anglo-Saxon mouthful surviving in mountain hollows long after it faded elsewhere.