tramp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp.
Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.
Inflected forms:
form: tramps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tramps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tramping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tramped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tramped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of walking with heavy steps.
pos: noun
examples: My dear sirs, did you actually imagine that one could not follow every clumsy move you made, with Joolby's low comedy tramp and the other two stealing in like a couple of hired assassins in a penny gaff melodrama?
gloss: A homeless person; a vagabond.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: [S]he had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
gloss: A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp.
Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend.
gloss: Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
pos: noun
examples: I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp-ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.
Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
“Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.
gloss: A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: I got in with the American Fur Company and set out for another tramp to trade with the Indians on the North and South Platte Rivers.
The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you′re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp up Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.
The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.
gloss: Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
pos: noun
examples: Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal.
gloss: A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
pos: noun
gloss: Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
pos: noun
gloss: To walk with heavy footsteps.
pos: verb
gloss: To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
pos: verb
examples: We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.
gloss: To hitchhike.
pos: verb
gloss: To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To travel or wander through.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to tramp the country
gloss: To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
examples: Soak them [blankets, etc.], add to the water in which the linens were washed some soap, and also some of the preparation to produce a strong lather; rub or tramp them, then rinse and dry.
gloss: To scram; begone.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: She hesitated, “be off—tramp, march,” he exclaimed, in a tone which the poor girl dared not disobey. She left the room, and Edward followed her to the door.
Tramp, my lad. Bundle out of this, please, hand over hand, and double quick.
gloss: To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: ocean tramp
railroad tramp
rubber tramp
saddle tramp
supertramp
tramp ant
tramp art
tramp chair
tramp data
trampdom
trampess
tramphood
tramp iron
trampish
trampism
tramp juice
tramplike
tramp-pick
tramp stamp
tramp steamer
tramp trade
retramp
trampage
tramper
trample
tromp
untramped
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