Tramping
['træmpiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tramp
Editor: Monica
Examples
- 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.
Editor: Monica