Tramp
[træmp]
Definition
(noun.) a heavy footfall; 'the tramp of military boots'.
(noun.) a disreputable vagrant; 'a homeless tramp'; 'he tried to help the really down-and-out bums'.
(verb.) cross on foot; 'We had to tramp the creeks'.
(verb.) travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; 'We went tramping about the state of Colorado'.
Typed by Cedric--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
(v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
(v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
(v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.
(n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
(n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
(n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
(n.) A tool for trimming hedges.
(n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [Colloquial.] Travel (on foot), trudge, march (heavily), TRAMPOOSE, jog on.
n. Journey (on foot), walk, march.
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Definition
v.t. to tread to travel over on foot: (Scot.) to tread clothes in a tub of water so as to cleanse them.—v.i. to walk to go on foot: to wander about as a vagrant.—n. a foot-journey: a vagrant: a plate of iron worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.—n. Tramp′er.—vs.i. Tram′pous Tram′poose to tramp about.—n. Tramp′-pick an iron pick forced by the foot into the ground.
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Examples
- Come up on the tramp? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why should the tramp burn the body? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'll go on tramp to-morrow. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Also, I see that they are covered with dust, and that the dust moves with them as they come, tramp, tramp! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- NoI think I should have sneaked past in terror of a rebuff from Disappointment: my heart throbbed now as if I already heard the tramp of her approach. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Forward they went--tramp, tramp--with mustering, manifold, slow-filing tread. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The tramp of horses, distinctly heard in the silence, was at length discerned. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I thought that perhaps you had locked the door because you were alone and were afraid of tramps. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Do you find any gypsies, now, or tramps, or vagrants of any sort, out there? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Rhineland children tramped into Italy, many perishing by the way, and there dispersed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Earth was shovelled in and tramped down about the chest until the bottom of the grave showed level and uniform. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The two girls tramped hollowly up the bare stairs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He made nothing of the people about him as he tramped on, staring over their heads into the body of the court. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Meg leaned against her mother, looking the image of despair, and Jo tramped about the room, calling Laurie names. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- For a few weeks after filling the sides and corners should be tramped down occasionally to aid them in settling. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Most of the tramping tinkers used to come and lodge at our place; that was the best part of my master's earnings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I believe the ensilage would be better without any tramping and packing if we could only get it to settle uniformly without. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Marmee is coming down the street, and Laurie is tramping through the garden as if he had something nice to tell. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some one in her cottage who had tramped down to Saint Albans and was tramping he didn't know where. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Tramping high and low, have they, Charley? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They have both come back, miss, and have been tramping high and low. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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