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▪ I. lamp, n.1|læmp|
Forms: 2–7 lampe, 3–6 laumpe, (4 lompe, 5 lawmp(e), 4– lamp.
[ad. F. lampe (recorded from 12th c.) = Pr. and It. lampa, ad. L. lampas, Gr. λαµπάς, f. λάµπειν to shine.]
1. a. A vessel containing oil, which is burnt at a wick, for the purpose of illumination. Now also a vessel of glass or some similar material, enclosing the source of illumination, whether a candle, oil, gas-jet, or incandescent wire. Often preceded by some defining word, as arc lamp, Argand lamp, Davy lamp, electric lamp, gas lamp, spirit lamp, sun lamp, Vesta lamp.
c1200Vices & Virtues 33 Hit wile on lampe bernen brihte. c1230Hali Meid. 45 As is wiðute lihte oile in a laumpe. 13..K. Alis. 5253 Tofore the kyng honge..two thousande laumpes of gold. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ii. 186 Hit is as lewede as a lamp þat no lyght ys ynne. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. xviii. 258 A laumpe hangith bifore Seint Kateryn. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 70, I haue putte more oille in my lampe to studie by. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 128 b, Apperynge to hym..in y⊇ similitude of the good aungell, with great lyghtes and lampes. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiv. i. (1886) 295 Also their lamps,..alembicks, viols, croslets, cucurbits, [etc.]. 1605Shakes. Macb. ii. iv. 7 Darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2092/4 A Patent..for enlightening the Streets, by a new sort of Lantern with Lamps. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 186 Seven golden lamps are continually burning before the image. 1806A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 13 Lamps, having two candles in each. 1829Nat. Philos., Heat ix. 47 (U.K.S.) A quantity of the liquid..was..rapidly distilled into the globe, by the heat of an Argand lamp. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. III. 251 Their [actors'] only one object in life is to keep themselves, as they phrase it, ‘before the lamps’; that is to say, in the eyes of the audience, and in the receipt of personal applause. c1865Letheby in Circ. Sci. I. 113/1 Among the disadvantages of the Vesta lamp, are its liability to smoke, and its disagreeable smell. 1892Electrical Engineer 16 Sept. 283/1 Forked terminals fixed on the ends of the connecting wires serve to complete the circuit between lamp and battery.
b. (Said of a literary composition). to smell of (or † taste) the lamp: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study.
1579North Plutarch, Demosthenes (1595) 889 Pytheas..taunting him on a time, tolde him, his reasons smelled of the lampe. Yea, replied Demosthenes sharply againe: so is there great difference, Pytheas, betwixt thy labor and myne by lampelight. 1615in Breton's Charac. Essaies (Grosart) 4/1 He that shall read thy characters..must say they are well written. They taste the lampe. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. v. §20 That dry..pedantic..style, which smells of the lamp and college. 1768Chesterfield Lett. 268 But they [Familiar Letters] should seem easy and natural, and not smell of the lamp. 1887Saintsbury Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser.
c. Used for torch; (in quots. 1722 and 1848–9 with allusion, after Plato Legg. 776 b and Lucret. ii. 79, to the Grecian torch-race: see lampadedromy).
1382Wyclif Song Sol. viii. 6 The laumpis of it the laumpes of fir, and of flaumes. 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 23 Therefore take heede, As Hymens Lamps shall light you. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. vi. 136 Or death extinguishes him and his title together, and he delivers the lamp to his next man. 1848–9Kingsley Poems, World's Age ii, Still the race of Hero-spirits Pass the lamp from hand to hand.
d. = safety-lamp.
1839Ure Dict. Arts, Lamp of Davy. 1883in Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining.
2. transf.
a. sing. One of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, a star or meteor; also, a flash (of lightning). pl. The stars or heavenly bodies in general. Also lamp(s of the night, the world.
1423Jas. I, Kingis Q. lxxii, Esperus his lampis gan to light. 15..in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 329 The Sterne of glory is rissyn ws to gyd,..Abone Phebus, the radius lamp divrn. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. ix. lxix, Straight like a lampe of lightning out it flies. 1601Holland Pliny I. 17 Those lampes or torches make long traines. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 13 It is high time for me to descend from these measures of time; the lampes of the world. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 5 When they see Sun, we see the Lamps of night. 1792Wolcot (P. Pindar) Wks. III. 198 Mild and placid as the light Shed by the Worm, the lamp of dewy night. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. ii, Thus as he lay the lamp of night Was quivering on his armour bright. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. i. 362 Yon clear lamps that measure and divide the weary years. 1830Hogg in Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 767 Lamps of glory begemm'd the sky.
b. pl. The eyes (formerly poet.; now slang).
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 315 My wasting lampes some fading glimmer left. 1647Fanshawe Faithf. Sheph. (1676) 77 Behold that proud one on me turn Her sparkling lamps. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Lamps, the eyes; to have queer lamps, is to have sore or weak eyes. 1899C. Rook Hooligan Nights iv. 63 Ole ruby boko put 'is lamps over me, wiv no error, an' he says, ‘Why you're the youngster as come in 'ere afore.’ 1901‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 90 The old hen with the languishing lamps was still on my trail. 1928Daily Express 29 Aug. 7/4 Woman in an assault case at Weymouth: I said I would fill her lamps for her. Clerk: What does that mean? Woman: Blacken her eyes. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 331 He had his lamps on the copper.
3. fig. A source or centre of light, spiritual or intellectual. Also, lamp of beauty, joy, life, etc.
‘Seven lamps’ are freq. mentioned in Biblical passages either as part of the Temple furniture or in symbolic references (e.g. Ex. xxv. 37, Zech. iv. 2, Rev. iv. 5); hence allusive uses as in quots. 1582, 1849.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxvii. 2 Blyth Aberdein,..The lamp of bewtie, bountie, and blythnes. Ibid. lxxxvi. 13 O lamp lemand befoir the trone devyne!..O mater Jhesu, salue Maria! 1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 162 Go, hart, vnto the lampe of lycht,..Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour. 1576Fleming Panopl. Ep. 434 note, Cambridge and Oxenford the twoe lampes of England, for learning, knowledge, etc. 1582Bentley (title) The Monument of Matrons; conteining seven severall Lamps of Virginity. a1626Bacon New Atl. (1650) 33 We have Three that take care..to Direct New Experiments, of a Higher Light,..These we call Lamps. 1633Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows (1851) 78 Blessed be God, that hath set up so many clear lamps in his Church. 1635R. Bolton Comf. Affl. Consc. xviii. (ed. 2) 331 Hold out a lamp of goodly profession to the eye of the world. 1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 86 This Lamp is called by the Name of Good Conscience. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xiv. (1840) 249 The great lamp of instruction, the Spirit of God. 1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 2 Reason, that heav'nlighted lamp in man. 1780Cowper Table T. 556 Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xi, Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 218 Quesnay's lamp..kindled the lamp of Adam Smith. 1849Ruskin (title) The Seven Lamps of Architecture. 1878J. P. Hopps Jesus ii. 11 Whoever despaired of the world, he, at least, kept the lamp of hope burning brightly in his soul.
4. attrib. and Comb.:
a. simple attributive, as lamp accident, † lamp basin, lamp-bracket, lamp-bulb, lamp-burner, lamp-chimney, lamp-cotton, lamp-fête, lamp-fire, lamp-flame, lamp-glass, lamp-globe, lamp-glow, lamp-house, † lamp-micrometer, lamp-room, lamp-scissors, lamp-sconce, lamp-shade, lamp-shine, lamp-soot, lamp-stand, lamp-stead, lamp-stove, lamp-student, lamp-worm.
1895Daily News 17 Oct. 6/6 Switzerland appears to share with Germany practical immunity from *lamp accidents.
1531MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Paid for mendyng of the *lamp basyn viijd. 1552Inv. in Archæol. Cant. VIII. 101 Item an old lampe-bason of laten.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Lamp-bracket.
1911Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 78/1 If a thin gold film is deposited on the lower half of the *lamp-bulb.
1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1106 *Lamp-burners in different numbers.
1847Rep. Comm. Patents 1846 (U.S.) 276, I also claim the *lamp chimney, formed of glass, with two contractions. 1870A. S. Stephens Married in Haste xv. 85 She unscrewed the lamp-chimney..and polished off a stain of black smoke. 1906Joyce Let. 6 Nov. (1966) II. 186 A lamp chimney here costs one lira!
1782Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXII. 167 The wick of the flame consists only of a single very thin *lamp-cotton thread.
1899Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 82/2 It is one of the great *lamp-fêtes of Sais.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 344 Make a *Lamp Fire under it.
1904Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 6/2 Not a single *lamp-flame stirs or quivers. 1920J. Masefield Enslaved 52 The lamp-flame purred from want of oil.
1521MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Paied for a *lampe glasse jd. 1914D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd i. i. 7 She has been lighting the lamp and holds the lamp-glass. 1974G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies vii. 99 The condensation dripped from the lamp⁓glass.
1922Joyce Ulysses 423 Their tunics bloodbright in a *lampglow.
1849F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers vii. 63 The driver..then takes his lamps to the *lamp-house to be cleaned and trimmed by workmen solely employed to do so.
1782Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXII. 165 The instrument I am going to describe, which I call a *Lamp-Micrometer, is free from all these defects.
1895Daily News 25 Sept. 7/2 The boatswain was in charge of the *lamp-room, but did not trim the lamp.
1766T. Amory J. Buncle (1825) II. 82 The golden *lamp-sconce of seven golden candlesticks.
1913C. Mackenzie Sinister St. ii. xviii. 449 The uneasy warmth of the overarching trees would draw them very close, while hushed endearments took them slowly into *lamp⁓shine. 1938W. de la Mare Memory 90 He shook his rascal head, Its curls by the lamp-shine gilt.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxix. (1856) 355 Our clothing..was black with *lamp-soot.
1893Funk's Stand. Dict., *Lamp-stand. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay ii. iv. 235, I found her in our drawing-room, standing beside the tall lamp-stand that half filled the bay. 1961New Eng. Bible Hebr. ix. 2 For a tent was prepared—the first tent—in which was the lamp-stand, and the table with the bread of the Presence. 1965M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate vii. 223 He then unscrewed the base of the mosaic lampstand.
1897J. T. Micklethwaite Ornaments Rubric 30 We find a *lamp⁓stead in a wall in the form of a niche.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Lamp-stove.
1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 798 *Lamp-students, that study by the lamp, or candle.
1917Hardy Moments of Vision 61 As delicate as *lamp-worm's lucency.
b. objective, as lamp-bearer, lamp-bearing, lamp-cleaner, lamp-maker, lamp-trimmer, † lamp-waster; lamp-lighting adj. and n. lamp-locking (see quots.).
1849James Woodman xiv, You must be my *lamp-bearer.
1824J. Symmons æschylus' Agam. 31 Such is the course of the *lamp-bearing games.
1898Daily News 17 Nov. 5/4 He gossiped with the *lamp-cleaner and the porter.
1823Byron Juan xi. xxvi, The French were not yet a *lamp-lighting nation. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xii. 82 We went out to a restaurant, just after lamp-lighting.
1894Gloss. Terms Evidence R. Comm. Labour 51/2 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7063) XXXVIII. 411 *Lamp-locking station, the place in a mine where the safety-lamps of all the miners are examined and locked by an official. 1905Westm. Gaz. 12 July 7/1, I was in the lamp-locking cabin, which is a short distance from the bottom of the shaft.
1598Florio, Lamparo, a *lampe-maker. 1875Carpentry & Join. 100 A disc of talc, to be had of any lampmaker, will answer even better than tin.
1882Navy List July 466 *Lamptrimmer..in 1st Class Ships.
1641Marmion Antiquary iii. i. F 3 b, Head-scratchers, thumb-biters, *lamp-wasters.
c. instrumental, as lamp-decked, lamp-heated, lamp-lighted, † lamp-lined, lamp-lit, lamp-warmed adjs. Also lamp-like adj.
1826Milman A. Boleyn (1827) 33 Around the *lamp-deck'd altar high and dim.
1875Carpentry & Join. 95 We will now describe a better class of *lamp-heated case.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. v, The now *lamp-lighted streets.
1674Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion 95 Let there be a *Lamplike Vessel of common Aquavitæ. 1819Shelley Cyclops 615 Fire will burn his lamp-like eyes. 1913D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 17 But the Moon..unfurled Her white, her lamp-like shape.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. viii. 174 Gedeons men by order from him brake their *lamp-lined pitchers.
1835Court Mag. VI. 82 In *lamplit vistas cold and grey, The streets deserted stretch away. 1847Tennyson Princess iv. 8 No bigger than a glow-worm shone the tent Lamp-lit from the inner.
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 286 Sundry *lamp-warmed dishes of savoury grills.
5. Special comb.: † lamp-beam, ? a chandelier; lamp-cap, the base of an electric light bulb or lamp into which are sealed the terminals and the neck of the glass globe; lamp-fish (see quot.); lamp-fly, ? a glow-worm; lamp-furnace, a furnace in which a lamp was used as the means of heating; lamp-hole, a hole or opening to receive a lamp; in sewers, a hole to admit of the passage of a lamp; lamp-house, the part of a photographic enlarger or projector which houses the light-source; † lamp-iron, a projecting iron rod from which a lamp was suspended; in the French Revolution sometimes used as a gallows; lamp-jack U.S. (see quot.); lamp-man, (a) a manufacturer of or dealer in lamps; (b) one who has charge of or tends lamps; lamp-mat, a mat on which a table-lamp is placed; lamp-moss, moss used as material for lamp-wicks; lamp-shell, a brachiopod, esp. one of the genus Terebratula or family Terebratulidæ; lamp-socket, = lamp-holder; lamp-standard, a post or other strong support for a lamp; lamp-wick, (a) the wick of a lamp; (b) the labiate plant Phlomis Lychnites; lamp-worker (see quot. 1962).
1565Golding Ovid's Met. xii. (1567) 151 b, He ran And pulled downe a *Lampbeame [L. funale] full of lyghtes.
1899W. P. Maycock Electr. Wiring iii. 324 The *lamp caps are fitted with a central plunger contact. 1971L. E. Vrenken in W. Elenbaas Fluorescent Lamps (ed. 2) v. 60 To connect a lamp to the electrical circuit a number of different lamp caps have been designed.
1883C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/1 The Scopelus resplendens..is called the brilliant *lamp-fish..from the fact that it has upon its head at night a glowing light.
1840Browning Sordello iii. 105 Thorn-rows Alive with *lamp-flies.
1641French Distill. v. (1651) 153 There is another sort of *Lamp furnaces with three candles. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 195 Therefore may you with much facility hatch three or four douzen of Eggs in a Lamp-furnace made of a few Boards, only by the heat of a Candle or Lamp. 1770Hewson in Phil. Trans. LX. 385, I therefore prepared a lamp-furnace with a small vessel of water upon it.
1884Health Exhib. Catal. 55/2 Ventilator with Dirt Boxes and *Lamphole Cover combined. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 151 The second-class passengers..drenched by the rain pouring through the lamp-hole!
1912J. F. Hodges Opening & Operating Motion Pict. Theatre 49 (caption) *Lamp house. 1916R. E. Welsh A-B-C of Motion Pict. 17 In the first place, there is a ‘lamp-house’, a small cabinet which contains the light. 1933Discovery Mar. 90/1 The illuminant itself [is] enclosed in a lamp house which is glazed with a filter of the same type as that used in the camera. 1971L. B. Happé Basic Motion Pict. Technol. x. 306 A xenon arc lamp can be substituted for a carbon arc in an existing lamphouse optical system but it is preferable to have a complete lamphouse designed around the new source.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 171 Though the latter should act with the libel and the *lamp-iron. 1831Soc. Life Eng. & Fr. 411 The lamp-iron yet remains at the corner of the Place de Greve, to which Foulon..was suspended in July 1790. 1849Miss Warner Wide wide World i, As he hooked his ladder on the lamp-irons, ran up and lit the lamp.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Lamp jack (Railway), a hood over a lamp chimney on the roof of a car.
1842Spirit of Times 15 Oct. 389/2 (Weingarten), Also to Miss Waterman..[a diploma] for various specimens of her exquisite work of *lamp mats. 1856Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. VII. 700 Some beautiful lamp-mats and other worsted and crochet work. 1873Young Englishwoman June 302/1 Embroidered border for lamp-mat. 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxxviii. 400 Lamp..standing on a gridiron, so to speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and called a lamp-mat.
1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4060/6 *Lamp-men, Ironmongers, Brasiers. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) V. 240 Fiddlers, tailors, lampmen, and all sorts of trades. 1876F. S. Williams Midl. Railw. 655 The driver..now takes his lamps to the lamphouse to be cleaned and trimmed by the lamp⁓men. 1892Daily News 3 Mar. 5/6 The lamp man inside..hands out the check and a lamp to collier No. 46.
1865Lubbock Preh. Times 401 The women have lamps and stone-kettles, *lamp-moss [etc.].
1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 209 The Brachiopoda are bivalve shell-fish... Their forms are symmetrical, and so commonly resemble antique lamps that they were called lampades or ‘*lamp-shells’ by the old naturalists. 1876Huxley Amer. Addresses ii. (1877) 36 One of the cretaceous lamp-shells (Terebratula).
1908Westm. Gaz. 27 Oct. 6/1 A small transformer can be placed in the *lamp-socket. 1968Lighting Equipment News Mar. 23/1 The adaptor fits into the existing lamp socket.
1908Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 3/5 A motor fire engine..collided with a *lamp standard. 1967Lighting Equipment News Jan. 26/3 The complete lamps and lamp standard are constructed on zinc coated sheet metal and painted.
1845C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 135 Miss Teeny had picked up the *lamp-wick with a pin several times. 1863Berkeley Brit. Mosses ix. 39 One species [of moss] affords a substitute for lampwicks to the Esquimaux.
1665Hooke Micrographia 209 The blowing of Glass into exceeding thin shells, and then breaking them into scales, which any *lamp-worker will presently do. 1962Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 46 Lamp worker, a worker who forms glassware from tubing or rod by heating in an oxy-gas or air-gas flame at a work bench. 1970Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 26/2 He may..watch a lampworker forming ornaments from glass softened over a gas torch.
Add:[2.] c. pl. (With capital initial.) A nickname for a person responsible for looking after lamps, esp. on board ship. ?Obs.
1866Dickens Mugby Junction in All Year Round Extra Christmas No. 10 Dec. 6/1 The answer to his inquiry, ‘Where's Lamps?’ was..that it was his off-time. 1900F. T. Bullen Men of Merchant Service 152 How can a sailor be expected to show due deference to a man, who, after all, is only ‘Lamps’. 1919E. O'Neill Moon of Caribbees 18 Fetch a light, Lamps, that's a good boy. 1933M. Lowry Ultramarine ii. 62 Both Lamps and Chips have been up for ten minutes.
[5.] lamp-worker: hence lamp-working n.
1925Hodkin & Cousen Textbk. Glass Technol. xxxvi. 483 For *lamp-working and general purposes a soft soda-lime glass is preferred. 1976Canadian Collector (Toronto) Mar.–Apr. 38/3 Lampworking for him was both profitable work and an absorbing hobby.
▪ II. † lamp, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? for *lampne, ad. L. lāmina (cf. lame n.1).]
? A plate.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 211 And in an erthen potte how put is al..And wel y-covered with a lampe [v.r. lamp, laumpe] of glas.
▪ III. lamp, v.1|læmp|
[f. lamp n.1]
1. intr. To shine. Also fig.
1609Daniel Civ. Wars viii. lxiv, A cheerliness did with her hopes arise That lamped cleerer then it did before. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 22 (1822) I. 175 An evil fire out of their eyes came lamping. 1827–35Willis Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat 37 White-brow'd Vesta, lamping on her path Lonely and planet-calm. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 5345 Fire—with smoke—All night went lamping on!
2. trans. To supply with lamps.
c1600Distracted Emp. i. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 172 To play with Luna or newe lampe the starres. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. i. Wks. 1856 I. 105 Set tapers to the toumbe, and lampe the church. 1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 128 Men engaged at out stations in cleaning, lamping, and examining carriages.
3. transf. To light as with a lamp.
1808J. Barlow Columb. ix. 5 Like one surrounding sky Lamp'd with reverberant fires. 1839Bailey Festus xxxi. (1852) 515 Falling stars..Lamping the red horizon fitfully. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vi. 1173 Scattered lights Lamping the rush and roll of the abyss.
fig.1890E. Gosse in Athenæum 10 May 605/2 A star to lamp Man's heart to heaven.
4. slang (orig. U.S.). To see, look at, recognize, watch. Cf. lamp n.1 2 b.
1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap v. 198 Stella..was standing on the centre table by now, so she could lamp herself in the glass over the mantel. 1921Adventure (U.S.) 18 July 42/2 But she lamps me auburn mug all to oncet an' draws back sudden, like I was a rattler. 1923L. J. Vance Baroque viii. 50 Nobody even lamped its number. 1928E. Wallace Again Sanders x. 259 These niggers have lamped the gats. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock iii. ii. 113 Afraid we'd lamp you if you didn't change your mug? Ibid. v. i. 190 Come an' lamp the bathing belles. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xi. 96 One of the fellows from Central has only to lamp you coming in here, and we all go up. 1962R. Cook Crust on its Uppers ii. 34 We were dying to have a butchers and lamp all the new bird. 1969R. Busby Robbery Blue iii. 26 I'd like to know how the coppers got on to us. They couldn't have lamped us on the road.
Hence lamped ppl. a.
1822B. W. Procter Let. of Boccaccio iv, Some lampéd feast.
Add:5. trans. and intr. To hunt by lamping (sense *2).
1988Shooting News & Weekly 26 Aug.–1 Sept. 9/2 Rabbits that have been unsuccessfully lamped become lamp-shy. 1991Working Terrier Feb. 18/1 My best ever dog..was in his prime and I was lamping every chance I got.
▪ IV. lamp, v.2 Sc.|læmp|
[? An onomatopœic formation suggested by limp v. Cf. lamper v.]
intr. ‘To go quickly by taking long steps’ (Jam.).
a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems xli. 39 The stoned steed stampis Throu curage and crampis, Syn on the land lampis. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 3 Lampin' alang in joyous glee Frae jaw to jaw athort the sea. 1820Scott Monast. xxxiii, It was all her father's own fault, that let her run lamping about the country, riding on bare-backed nags. 1884T. Speedy Sport xvi. 278 Those who..shoot down the hares as they come unsuspectingly ‘lamping’ forward.
▪ V. lamp, v.3 dial. (chiefly north.) and slang.|læmp|
[Of uncertain origin; perh. alteration of lam v.]
To beat, strike; to thrash. Also fig.
1808in Jamieson. 1895T. Pinnock Tom Brown's Black Country Ann. (E.D.D.), I'll lamp his hide when I catch him. 1902in Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 513/2 Ye thought ye wad lamp us, did ye? I was fairly lampet at that game. 1969D. Griffiths Talk of my Town 21 Lamp it, kick it (e.g., a football) hard. 1985M. Munro Patter 42 Lamp that oot the windy. |