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▪ I. ˈvamping, n. Mining.
(See quot.)
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Vamping, the débris of a stope, which forms a hard mass under the feet of the miner.
▪ II. vamping, vbl. n.1|ˈvæmpɪŋ|
[f. vamp v.1]
1. The action of the vb., in lit. and fig. senses.
1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Cabeçado,..the vamping or putting to the instops to bootes. 1680Vind. Conforming Clergy (ed. 2) 50 It had certainly been a far more honest..Employment for him to have..hired a Stall, and set himself bodily to Vamping of Boots. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Vamps, To graft a new Footing on old Stockings is still call'd Vamping. 1773Foote Bankrupt iii, Political papers should bear vamping; like sermons, change but the application and text, and they will suit all persons and seasons. 1819Jeffrey in Cockburn Life (1852) II. 187, I have just got done with another Review... I have more vamping and patching than writing. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. vii. (1872) 233 The mere vamping-together of hostile veracities. 1860All Year Round No. 72. 508 No vamping of him up into a severe ancient Roman will do.
b. attrib. (in sense 3 of the vb.).
c1890(title), Reeves' Vamping Tutor.—The Art of Extemporaneous Accompaniment or playing by ear on the Piano. 1905Church Times 30 June 842/4 Those strange, long, keyless trumpets, called vamping-horns. 1908F. Bond Screens & Galleries 147 One of the strangest instruments of the old choirs is the vamping trumpet.
2. Tramping, trudging. rare.
1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 46 His quick motion and speedy vamping from place to place..makes him smell like a traveller.
▪ III. ˈvamping, vbl. n.2
[f. vamp v.3 + -ing1.]
Seductive behaviour; acting as a vamp.
1904[see vamp v.3 1]. 1918N.Y. Times 15 July 9 Nancy tries her ‘vamping’ tactics on him and he confesses his crime.
▪ IV. ˈvamping, ppl. a.
[f. vamp v.1]
That vamps, in senses of the vb.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca i. ii, Do you hope to triumph, Or dare your vamping valour, goodman Cobler, Clap a new soul to th' kingdom? 1737M. Green Spleen 163 Whose easy vamping talent lies, First wit to pilfer, then disguise. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xxix, A pert, vamping chaise-undertaker..demanded if Monsieur would have his chaise refitted. |