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Tramp   /træmp/   Listen
noun
Tramp  n.  
1.
A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
2.
A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
3.
The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
4.
A tool for trimming hedges.
5.
A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.


verb
Tramp  v. t.  (past & past part. tramped; pres. part. tramping)  
1.
To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
2.
To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. (Colloq.)
3.
To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. (Scot.)


Tramp  v. i.  To travel; to wander; to stroll.





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"Tramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... rounds with the brass foundry, seeing that all the tramp chains were on, putting out the cat, and coming the "Shore Acres" act, when I sees something dark skiddoo across the court to where the Boss stood smoking in the moonshine by the fountain. I does a sprint, too, and was ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... is a weakness common to both these works which cannot be passed up in silence. More than once the narrator falls out of his part as a tramp worker to rail journalistically at various things that have aroused his particular wrath, such as the tourist traffic, the city worker and everything relating to Switzerland. It is done very naively, too, but it is well to remember how frequently in the past this very kind ...
— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun
... wrath flew to fury at such sheer scorn Of his puny strength by the giant eld thus acting the babe new-born: And "Neither will this turn serve!" yelled he. "Out with you! Trundle, log! If you cannot tramp and trudge like a man, ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... women he has ever seen or heard of—how each one nourishes secretly some little rebellion, some dream of a wider, freer life, a life less hampered, less mean, less material. He thinks how all men yearn to cross salt water, to scale peaks, to tramp until weary under a hot sun. He hears the Peace, in its far northern valley, brawling among stones, and his heart is ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... and a blackguard in my time," returned the other, fiercely; "I've been a street tumbler, a tramp, a gypsy's boy! I've sung for half-pence with dancing dogs on the high-road! I've worn a foot-boy's livery, and waited at table! I've been a common sailors' cook, and a starving fisherman's Jack-of-all-trades! What has a gentleman in your ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins


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