trampn.1
/tramp/, U.S. /træmp/ 1.
a. An act of tramping; a heavy or forcible tread, a stamp; hence, an injury to the foot of a horse caused by its setting one foot on another: cf. tread n.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the foot > trampling
defoulc1330
tramplingc1440
conculcation1547
overtrampling1593
trample1604
calcation1656
occulcation1656
tramp1808
decalcation1827
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tramp.., the act of striking the foot suddenly downwards.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 397 [To horses] Tramps are dangerous, besides causing blemishes on the foot,..they may cause quittor.
1859 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (ed. 4) 46 Having my right foot severely wounded on the instep, by the tramp of a horse.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxi As the reed Is crushed beneath its tramp.
b. More fully axle tramp. Alternate bouncing of wheels on the same axle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > specific movement of wheels
lock1794
skidding1889
shimmying1919
shimmy1925
wheel spin1928
wheel wobble1930
tramp1935
wheel slip1945
1935 Story of Knee Action (General Motors Corp.) 3 Such erratic wheel movements as ‘shimmy’ and ‘tramp’ should be eliminated.
1959 Motor Man. (ed. 36) v. 121 Independent rear suspension..offers the advantages of reduction of unsprung weight and the elimination of axle tramp and patter.
1977 Drive Sept. 120/2 Banging and jumping from the rear axle..on fast take-offs from rest or in mid-corner (a condition called ‘axle tramp’).
1982 Motor 3 July 39/4 Brisk starts are noticeable for their lack of tramp.
2. The measured and continuous tread of a body of persons or animals; hence, the sound of heavy footfalls.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > heavy
proculcation1656
tramping1660
stump1770
clampa1774
stumping1805
foot tramp1808
tramp1817
stomping1819
trampling1828
tromping1953
stomp1971
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh iv Heard'st thou not the tramp of men Sounding from yonder fearful glen?
1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell ii. iii Does yet the court-yard ring with tramp Of horses and of men.
1889 ‘Q’ Splendid Spur 121 The monotonous tramp-tramp through the slush and mire of the roads.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xlvi. 133 The tramp of the changing sentries..might be to her the echoing footfall of death.
3.
a. A bout of tramping or journeying on foot; a long, tiring, or toilsome walk or march; a trudge; a walking excursion (colloquial).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > a walk or journey on foot
walkc1405
walking1542
footwalk1599
travel1724
tramp1787
foot tramp1808
foot tour1841
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking laboriously or aimlessly > an act of
march1692
tramp1787
trudge1835
trampoose1840
traipse1862
stram1869
ploda1879
foot-slog1900
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 80 If haply Knowledge, on a random tramp, Had shor'd them with a glimmer of his lamp.
1822 T. Bewick Mem. 138 This [journey] may be regarded as merely one of my ‘tramps’.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific x. 120 I continued my tramp round the easternmost part of the island.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xvii. 285 I doubted whether I should be in a condition for a tramp of thirty miles.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab ix. 170 Files of hundreds of camels slowly following each other in the weary tramp to Mecca.
1898 J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. IX. No. 34. 104 Much exhausted by a long tramp in hot weather.
1966 Weekly News (N.Z.) 3 Aug. 7/4 Two-day tramps from the Milford Hotel up to the Sutherland Falls.
1984 N.Z. Woman's Weekly 30 Apr. 121/2 Day tramps are popular.
b. on (the) tramp, on one's way from place to place on foot, esp. in search of employment, or wandering as a vagrant.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > travelling from place to place [phrase] > wandering > as a tramp
on (also upon) the road1642
on the pad1665
on (the) tramp1760
on the wallaby track1865
on (also in) a (or the) shaughraun1922
on the swag1941
1760 Life & Adventures of Cat 147 An English vagrant, on the common tramp (as they express it).
1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 608 When any of them are out of employ, they set out in search of a master, with a sort of Certificate from their last place. This is called going on the tramp.
1866 D. Greenwell Ess. (1867) 109 Some of the eight are in the army, some in the collieries, some on the tramp.
1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children iii. 21 Just on tramp she seems to have been.
4.
a. A person on the tramp; = tramper n. 2; one who travels from place to place on foot, in search of employment, or as a vagrant; also, one who follows an itinerant business, as a hawker, etc.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1664 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1904) II. 204 Thay goo so Lick trampis, so durty, tis a sham to see them.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Tramp, a tramp; a beggar. Sussex.
1808 Agric. Mag. 3 43 A certain class of wandering labourers known by the name of tramps.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tramp, a pedlar; called also a tramper, an itinerant tinker, or one who travels with any kind of wares.
1842 in E. Chadwick Rep. Sanitary Condition Labouring Population viii. 357 These houses are stages for the various orders of tramps.
1860 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 1st Ser. (ed. 7) 157 A wretched woman, who used to traverse the country as a beggar or tramp.
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 910/1 Monks, who..roamed about in the country, and really were neither more nor less than tramps of the most indolent and impertinent description.
b. slang (originally U.S.). A sexually promiscuous woman.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > promiscuity > person > woman
bat1607
tramp1922
bag1924
poule1924
blimp1926
punch board1955
slag1958
slagbag1966
hosebag1974
mama1980
slutbag1987
Essex girl1991
knob jockey2003
1922 E. O'Neill Anna Christie i. 119 Sure—and another tramp with her.
1936 D. Powell Turn, Magic Wheel i. 60 A wayward, double-crossing, lying little tramp.
1959 ‘J. Welcome’ Stop at Nothing ii. 28 You can usually tell..the nice girls from the tramps.
1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 19/2 Even in these permissive times the girl of your age who can't say ‘no’ can pretty soon earn the title of tramp among her contemporaries.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion i. v. 49 Who could blame Richard, so young at prep school, for fooling around with the local tramp?
5.
a. In full, ocean tramp: A cargo vessel, esp. a steamship, which does not trade regularly between fixed ports, but takes cargoes wherever obtainable and for any port.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > tramp
trampc1880
ocean tramp1886
c1880 [Remembered in colloquial use].
1886 Shipping Gaz. 9 July We think few will deny that the ‘ocean tramp’ is the product of competition.
1891 M. Roberts in Murray's Mag. June 795 The pure ‘tramp’ is not seen to its best advantage in seas whose ports are in connection with England by wire or submarine cable.
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Ocean Tramps or Tramp Steamers, a nautical term applied to all seagoing steamships (outside the regular liners, i.e. not confined to one particular trade) which earn their freight solely by cargo-carrying to all or any parts of the world.
1893 Naut. Mag. Mar. 212.
1900 F. T. Bullen Men of Merchant Service iii. 21 The lowest type of tramp..is..built so as to pass Lloyd's surveyor, but without one single item in her equipment that can be dispensed with.
b. attributive, as tramp steamer, tramp vessel, tramp trade.
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1887 Shipping Gaz. 14 Jan. The day of building tramp steamers by means of money raised from single ship companies has passed away—for ever, we hope.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 May 2/1 In many of our tramp boats there is need of great reform in the food supplied to our sailors.
1897 Daily News 26 Jan. 3/6 His complaint was against tramp vessels, which were often undermanned.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 5 June 4/2 Mr. R——,..who is largely interested in the ‘tramp’ trade,..also young Mr. R——,..who is also a large tramp owner.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 11/3 The volume of tramp shipping is six-sevenths of the whole..Tramp business cannot exist unless accompanied by cheap and good shipbuilding.
c. An aircraft plying commercially according to demand. Also attributive.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft for goods or passengers
liner1905
tramp1905
airliner1908
taxi1909
taxi plane1909
air ferry1916
air freighter1919
passenger plane1919
air taxi1920
freighter1920
flying boxcar1932
ferry1939
shuttle plane1944
day coach1945
feeder liner1946
charter1959
night coach1959
1905 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 141 These heavy freighters fly down to Halifax direct... They are the biggest tramps aloft.
1948 Shell Aviation News No. 115. 8/3 At present the majority of freight charters are on a direct ‘out-and-home’ basis, but the time is coming when, with the parallel development of the Baltic and heavy duty tramp aeroplanes, ‘time charter’ will be as commonplace as it is with shipping.
1952 ‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands ix. 130 Most of us fly scheduled routes, but some fly tramps. Take anything anywhere.
6.
a. A plate of iron worn under the hollow of the boot to protect it in digging; also the part of the spade, etc., which is pressed upon by the foot.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > to protect when digging
foot iron1741
tramp1825
tread1842
tramp-clog1894
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > spade > part of
spade-iron1356
spade-tree1411
shoec1450
spade-stale1649
spade-graft1664
tramp1844
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Tramp, a plate of iron worn by ditchers below the centre of the foot, for working on their spades.
1844 [see tramp-pick n. at Compounds 2]. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tramp, the part of a spade on which the foot is placed to thrust;..an iron plate worn by drainers as a guard to the boot in digging.
b. Curling. A piece of spiked iron fastened to the sole of the shoe to give a firm foot-hold on the ice.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > spike for shoe
tramp1830
1830 H. Duncan in Poets Dumfries. ix. (1910) 266 Gae get you besom, tramps, an' stane, An' join the friendly strife, man.
1891 R. Kerr Maggie o' Moss 61 (E.D.D.) Wi' tramps on their feet, and besoms in han'.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (See also senses 5b, 5c.)
a. (In sense 4.)
tramp-printer n.
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1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 Jan. 8/1 What the..foreman thought he at once ‘spotted’ as a tramp-printer entered the office and asked to be allowed to try his hand at the case.
tramp-scarer n.
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1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 817/2 The poor animal fulfils his function as a tramp~scarer.
tramp-ward n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > for homeless people
house of refuge1726
night sheltera1819
night refuge1840
tramp-house1850
straw yard1851
casual ward1861
casual1865
shelter1890
reception centre1896
tramp-cell1905
tramp-ward1906
Sally Ann1927
Sally1931
1906 Westm. Gaz. 14 May 12/2 [One] who, disguised as a tramp, has spent days and nights in tramp-wards, lodging-houses, and shelters.
tramp-woman n.
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1903 T. Hardy in N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 775 (title of poem) A trampwoman's tragedy.
b.
tramp-like adj.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > ragamuffin
rejagged1522
shag-ragc1590
ragamuffin1602
ragamuffa1626
trampish1861
tramp-like1904
tatty1933
1904 Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 8/3 A tramp-like personage stands sentinel complacently over a terrific bulldog.
C2. † tramp-ruck n. Obsolete a rick or stack of hay compressed by treading.
tramp-cell n. a workhouse cell in which vagrants are lodged.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > for homeless people
house of refuge1726
night sheltera1819
night refuge1840
tramp-house1850
straw yard1851
casual ward1861
casual1865
shelter1890
reception centre1896
tramp-cell1905
tramp-ward1906
Sally Ann1927
Sally1931
1905 Daily Chron. 22 Sept. 5/6 He was taken back to the workhouse, and placed in a tramp cell.
tramp-clog n. = sense 6a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > to protect when digging
foot iron1741
tramp1825
tread1842
tramp-clog1894
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tramp-clog or tramp,..a piece of iron plate..used as a guard where the spade is trodden in digging.
tramp-cock n. a heap of hay compressed by treading.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > compressed stack
tramp-cock1776
tramp-rick1799
tramp-coll1825
tramped pike1844
1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 ii. 129/2 In these cocks, I allow the hay to remain until..I judge that it will keep in pretty large tramp-cocks.
tramp-coll n. [coll n.5] = tramp-cock n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > compressed stack
tramp-cock1776
tramp-rick1799
tramp-coll1825
tramped pike1844
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Tramp-coll, a number of colls or cocks of hay put into one, and tramped hard, in order to their being farther dried.
tramp-house n. a lodging-house for tramps.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > for homeless people
house of refuge1726
night sheltera1819
night refuge1840
tramp-house1850
straw yard1851
casual ward1861
casual1865
shelter1890
reception centre1896
tramp-cell1905
tramp-ward1906
Sally Ann1927
Sally1931
1850 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Bairnsla Foaks' Ann. 42 A tramp-hause.
1899 G. Douglas James Hogg 146 In common tramp-houses, a death is..a god~send.
tramp-master n. a workhouse official charged with the control of the vagrants admitted.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > parish official > [noun] > dealing with vagrants
tramp-master1887
1887 Leamington Spa Courier 30 Apr. 5/6 Persons willing to undertake the duties of Tramp Master at the Workhouse.
1895 Daily News 5 Oct. 6/6 He maintained that..the trampmaster in Salford, had some knowledge of human nature.
tramp-pick n. Scottish a narrow, pointed pick, with a tread, for breaking up stiff ground.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > pick
mattockeOE
pickaxe1256
billc1325
pikec1330
pickc1350
peak1454
picker1481
peck1485
beele1671
pix1708
tramp-pick1813
jackass pick1874
mad mick1919
1813 G. Robertson Agric. Surv. Kincardine vi. 238 The tramp-pick..is a kind of lever, of iron, about four feet long, and an inch square in thickness, tapering away at the lower end, and having a small degree of curvature there... It is fitted with a foot step..on which the work~man presses with his foot.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 372 An iron tramp-pick to loosen the subsoil immediately under the mould, and raise the boulder stones... The tramp..is movable, and may be placed on either side to suit the foot of the workman, where it remains firm at about 16 inches from the point, which gradually tapers.
tramp-rick n. = tramp-ruck n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > compressed stack
tramp-cock1776
tramp-rick1799
tramp-coll1825
tramped pike1844
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 220 In making tramp-ricks, they ought to be secured, by one rope over the top, in the direction of that point from which the most violent winds are expected to blow.., or by two transverse ropes, which is the surest way.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 396 After it [hay] has been a short time in small cocks, it ought to be put up in what are called tramp ricks.
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1588 Exchequer Rolls Scot. XXI. 412 For making of 36 dawarkis of hay..and for wynning and putting of the samyn in tramp ruckis.
Derivatives
ˈtrampage n. the habit or condition of a tramp, vagrancy (U.S.).
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1894 Chicago Advance 3 May A menace, a nuisance all along the line of their trampage.
1897 Plantation Missionary (Oberlin, Ohio) Dec. The poor [may be] rescued from pauperism, trampage and crime.
ˈtrampdom n. the ‘realm’ or sphere of tramps.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > world of
tinkerdom1834
trampdom1891
Vagabondia1894
hobohemia1923
hobodom1930
1891 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 257 The tramp also finds it convenient to use the highways, but this is not..common..for it is on the railroads that Trampdom thrives as an institution.
1895 Cent. Mag. Oct. 945/1 The love of liquor brings more men and women into trampdom.
ˈtrampess n. a female tramp.
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1897 ‘A. Raine’ Welsh Singer 95 in Eng. Dial. Dict. She was a trampess who died in John Powys' barn.
ˈtrampish adj. like or like that of a tramp.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > ragamuffin
rejagged1522
shag-ragc1590
ragamuffin1602
ragamuffa1626
trampish1861
tramp-like1904
tatty1933
1861 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon xxvi, in Temple Bar Oct. 299 A trampish woman with a tambourine.
1890 New York Sun Feb. The depot policeman was shoving a trampish-looking man out of the place.
ˈtrampishly adv. in a trampish manner.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adverb] > in neglected or dilapidated manner
tatteredly1677
trampishly1889
tattily1957
1889 Harper's Mag. Nov. 831/2 The battered folding-doors trampishly lean against the walls.
ˈtrampism n. the practice of going on tramp.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage
loitering1530
vacabuncy1535
vagabondry1547
vagabuncy1549
roguing1577
roguery1594
vagabondinga1628
vagrancy1706
vagrance1751
vagabondizing1755
vagabondage1813
vagabondism1822
vag1859
beachcombing1867
trampism1893
hoboism1930
1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 5 Sept. The plans will check idiotic processions and trampism, and men who will not work will get out of the city.
1894 in Rev. of Reviews May 608/2 I make no defense of trampism nor vagabondage.
Draft additions 1993
ˈtramphood n. rare the state or condition of being a tramp.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > state or condition of being a tramp
tramphood1963
1963 Time & Tide 28 Mar. 33/3 Davies's childhood and his tramphood..are dealt with in refreshing style in the telling of this story of a man who rose from utter obscurity to world-wide fame.
1985 P. Auster City of Glass xi. 165 Some beg with a semblance of pride... Others have given up hope of ever leaving their tramphood.
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tramp stamp n. colloquial (derogatory) a tattoo on a woman's lower back.
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2004 San Francisco Chron. 19 Aug. e16/6 In the Central Valley..they call that tattoo at the base of a woman's spine a ‘tramp stamp’.
2010 G. DiErio & R. Marinara Fist Pump 62 The best way to bring out your fake boobs, drawn-on eyebrows and tastefully done tramp stamp is a nice, healthy shade of tangerine.
2014 Sun (Nexis) 13 Aug. 24 Getting rid of embarrassing ‘tramp stamps’ and ex-partners' names are two of the top reasons for tattoo removal, experts say.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† tramptrampen.2
Obsolete.
Temper of iron or steel. Also figurative.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > temper of
tramp1566
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. 98 b If you doe euer make any proofe of trial to know of what trampe the arrowes of Loue be.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 241 The King of England..sent him an excellent harnesse, with a sworde of the selfe same trampe.
1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (Shaks. Soc.) 40 With what trampe bee wee tempered withall.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades x. 179 His sword..with point of perfect trampe.
1684 T. Goddard Plato's Demon 40 Both Respect and Obedience too, will break, when bent with too much Rigor and beyond their Trempe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
trampv.1
/tramp/, U.S. /træmp/ 1. intransitive. To tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resonant step; to stamp.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (intransitive)] > with the foot > stamp
tramplea1382
strampc1423
trampa1425
stamp1535
supplode1623
drub1855
stomp1914
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily
stamp1490
trample1530
tramp1570
stump1600
thump1604
clump1665
trape1706
pound1801
clamp1808
clomp1829
lump1861
tromp1892
stunt1901
stomp1919
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Prov. vi. 13 He bekeneth with iȝen, he trampith [1382 tramplith, L. terit pede] with the foot, he spekith with the fyngur.
a1485 Promptorium Parvulorum 499/1 (MS. S.) Trampyn [v.r. trampelyn], tero.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biiv/1 To Trampe, strepitare.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. x. 225 They had passed down the street, tramping and gingling and caracoling.
1877 T. De W. Talmage Serm. 23 Hearest thou not the trembling of the ground, as the thunders of the judgment-day are tramping on?
2. intransitive. To tread heavily or with force (on or upon something); to stamp (upon): = trample v. 3 to tramp on any one's toes (figurative), to infringe or encroach on his rights or privileges; to ‘come down upon’ with injurious effect; to take undue advantage of.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > downwards > trample
treadc825
overtreadOE
to tread down, under foot, in the mire, to the ground, to piecesc1175
defoulc1290
foil13..
to-treada1382
foula1400
fulyie1488
overgo1488
trample1530
tramp1533
conculcate1570
trample1577
overtrample1589
tramp1596
inculcate1598
stramplea1610
calcate1623
scrunch1861
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > be morally improper [verb (intransitive)] > encroach on rights, etc.
intrude1534
entrench1591
interlope1603
to tramp on any one's toes1862
encroach1875
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 123 Bewar that ȝe neuir trampe thairon [sc. on a grave] with ȝour fute.
a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. E4 The mair ye tramp in a turde, it growes the breader.
1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xxxviii The black cow has nae trampet yet Upo' your taes.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 768 [The hides] are then tramped upon by a workman walking repeatedly from one end of the vat to the other.
1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ xi. 477 It secures in practice my right, so long as I do not tramp on my neighbour's toes, to speak and think and act as I choose.
3.
a. transitive. To press or compress by treading; to tread or trample upon. tramp down, to crush down by heavy or vigorous treading; to suppress, to crush. tramp under one's foot or feet, to tread or walk heavily upon; figurative to treat with contempt.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > downwards > trample
treadc825
overtreadOE
to tread down, under foot, in the mire, to the ground, to piecesc1175
defoulc1290
foil13..
to-treada1382
foula1400
fulyie1488
overgo1488
trample1530
tramp1533
conculcate1570
trample1577
overtrample1589
tramp1596
inculcate1598
stramplea1610
calcate1623
scrunch1861
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Fi He suld tramp dwne, the heid of the serpent.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Pii As the suine trampis the precious peirlis onder thair feit.
1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 86v The camamele, the more ye tread it and trampe it, the sweter it smelleth.
1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. (S.T.S.) 167 Murther of spiritual magistratis..be tramping the memoriallis of al religione in guttaris.
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Bv They see the painfull Vigneron pull the grapes: First tramping them, and after pressing now The grenest clusters gathered into heapes.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 266 A woman is appointed to tramp the straw, [and] spread it regularly over the mow that is forming.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. iii. 52 No horse tramps the seeds we have sown for Harold the Earl to reap.
b. To tread (sheets, blankets, etc.) in a tub of soapy water, as part of the process of washing. Scottish.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (transitive)] > by tramping
tramp1798
tread1848
post1896
1798 Monthly Mag. Dec. 438/1 To tramp clothes.
1807 J. Carr Caledonian Sketches (1809) 226 In my way from Hopetounhouse to Linlithgow I saw the process of tramping, that is, of washing.
1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 112 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.
1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold viii On washing days, it was tucked up above the knees to ‘tramp the claes’.
c. reflexive. Of a horse: To injure itself by setting one foot on another: cf. tramp n.1 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (reflexive)] > injure one foot with another
tramp1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 847 The shoes usually worn by stallions are very clumsy, and..are apt to cause him tramp himself.
d. to tramp flounders, to catch flounders by stamping on the wet sand with the bare feet until they rise. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > fish for type of fish [verb (intransitive)] > for flounders
to tramp flounders1894
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders iii. 33 I must..proceed to the flats and tramp flounders for our breakfast.
4.
a. intransitive. To walk; esp. to walk steadily or heavily; to trudge; to travel on foot; to go on a walking expedition (colloquial); New Zealand spec. to walk for long distances in rough country. Also tramp it.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > laboriously or aimlessly
haik?a1500
harl?a1513
trudge1547
palt1560
ploda1566
traipse1593
trash1607
truck1631
tramp1643
vamp1654
trudgea1657
daggle1681
trape1706
trampoose1794
hike1809
slog1872
taigle1886
pudge1891
sludge1908
schlep1937
schlump1957
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)]
treadc897
stepc900
goeOE
gangOE
walka1375
wanderc1380
foota1425
to take to footc1440
awalkc1540
trade1547
beat it on the hoof1570
pad1610
to be (also beat, pad) upon the hoofa1616
trample1624
to pad (also pad upon) the hoof1683
ambulate1724
shank1773
stump it1803
pedestrianize1811
pedestrianate1845
tramp it1862
ankle1916
1643 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1904) I. 302 Now the owld man must trampe on foote.
1720 Humourist 51 Your Hunters of News, who tramp it half a Score Streets, to know who has got a Wife or a Place.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 162 My darling boy, whom I would tramp bare-footed through the world for.
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 91 I've oft meant tramping o'er to see ye.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xlvii. 209 These people, who go tramping about the country.
1862 W. J. Stewart in Macmillan's Mag. May 32 The miner must be prepared to tramp it to that part of the Quesnelle or Cariboo gold-fields.
1935 [see tramping n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 19591 [see tramping n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1984 N.Z. Listener 28 Apr. 62/1 One of my correspondents tramping with her husband, referred to the ‘benched out’ track they were following up the hillside.
b. To go about or travel as a tramp. colloquial.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > as a vagabond or tramp
rogue1570
vagabonda1586
vagabondize1794
tramp1846
hobo1905
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 134/2 Tramp, to wander as a beggar.
1891 in Cent. Dict.
1898 J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. IX. No. 34. 102 A man..who had tramped from Leeds in July weather, was seized by a fit on his arrival in London.
1909 Bodleian Mar. 7/1 I'd rather have tramped it than have gone in for any top-hatted occupation.
5.
a. transitive. To walk through or over with heavy or weary tread; to traverse on foot, spec. as a tramp.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > tread heavily
trampa1774
stomp1977
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] > laboriously or aimlessly
trudge1635
trollopa1745
plod1751
trampa1774
traipse1885
scuff1909
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 137 Whether they tramp life's thorny way, Or thro' the sunny vineyard stray.
a1809 T. Holcroft Memoirs (1816) I. 23 I and my mother were..tramping the villages to hawk our pedlary.
a1885 in J. Irving West Scotl. in Hist. 217 They..tramped the Trongate in pattens and caléche.
1894 H. Caine Manxman 10 He tramped the island in pursuit of his calling.
1895 P. Hemingway Out of Egypt i. v. 55 He determined..to tramp the streets pretending to look for something to do.
b. To drive into or out of some condition by walking vigorously or steadily. colloquial.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > tread heavily > bring to specific condition by
tramp1853
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvii. 220 Leaving the deck, where I have been tramping the cold out of my joints, I come below.
1892 Field 14 May 732/2 You will tramp your boots and feet into order.
c. Canadian. to tramp the tiles:(see quot. 1898).
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1898 Sci. Siftings 8 Oct. 361/2 Trespassing on the railways is a misdemeanour [in Canada]... ‘Tramping the ties’ (as such trespassing is commonly there called).
6.
a. intransitive. To make a voyage on a tramp steamer; also transitive to run (a tramp steamer). colloquial.
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific type of craft
to barge it1599
boat?1630
canoe1732
shallop1737
raft1741
scow1749
steam1832
yacht1836
screw1840
steamer1866
gondole1874
kayak1875
sail1898
tramp1899
motor-boat1903
barge1909
hover1962
power1964
motor1968
jet-ski1978
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > run as tramp steamer
tramp1899
1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle viii He heartily wished himself away back on the steamer, tramping for cargo.
1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle x You are making a good thing for us out of tramping the ‘Parakeet’.
b. To transport goods by road to varying destinations as the load requires.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > to various destinations
tramp1959
1959 [implied in: Times Rev. Industry June 45/3 Abolition of tramping and conduct of all long-distance movement through..regular trunk services with sufficient terminal arrangements. (at tramping n. and adj. at Derivatives)].
1968 in P. G. Hollowell Lorry Driver vi. 152 She [sc. a lorry driver's wife] didn't like it when I was on tramping... When you're tramping you never know where you're going and when you're coming back.
7. The verb-stem used adverbially: cf. bang v.1, etc.
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1796 W. Scott William & Helen xlvii Tramp! tramp! along the land they rode; Splash! splash! along the sea.
Derivatives
tramped adj. /træmpt/ tramped pike: a large rick of hay compressed by tramping: cf. tramp-cock n., tramp-rick n. at tramp n.1 Compounds 2.
/træmpt/ tramped pike: a large rick of hay compressed by tramping: cf. tramp-cock n., tramp-rick n. at tramp n.1 Compounds 2.ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > compressed stack
tramp-cock1776
tramp-rick1799
tramp-coll1825
tramped pike1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 970 The large ricks thus formed are named tramped pikes.
ˈtramping n. and adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > sound of footsteps
stepa1616
tramping1660
stump1690
tit-tat1699
treading1709–10
pad1879
plod-plodding1881
heels1883
flip-flop1889
clump1891
pid-pad1900
plod1902
clomp1912
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > heavy
proculcation1656
tramping1660
stump1770
clampa1774
stumping1805
foot tramp1808
tramp1817
stomping1819
trampling1828
tromping1953
stomp1971
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp
vagrant1461
loiteringa1533
way-walkinga1535
roguing1566
roguish1572
vagabondical1576
vagabond1585
vagabondinga1586
land-loping1587
vagrom1600
leap-land1614
vagabondial1615
vaguea1627
gangrel1650
vagabondious1661
going1737
gang-there-out1815
tramping1828
vagabondizing1830
pikey1838
beachcombing1845
runagate1877
going-about1886
bummy1890
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking for exercise or recreation > hiking or rambling
rambling1745
tramping1863
hiking1901
wandervogeling1924
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [adjective] > going on foot > hiking or rambling
tramping1863
stramming1869
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > heavy
tramplinga1586
pounding1678
stumping1843
tramping1893
1660 Surv. Armoury Tower of London in Archaeologia (1794) 11 100 Armorers Tooles. Small Bickernes, Tramping Stakes, Round stakes, Welting stakes.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 331 I am not so far to seek for a dwelling, that the same roof should cover me and a tramping princess like that.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting v. 112 I left..on a tramping tour into the Zulu country.
1893 J. H. McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 110 The tramping feet of the policemen.
1935 ‘J. Guthrie’ Little Country xxi. 319 The members of the Tem Tramping Club.
1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 74 New Zealanders are a people who take full advantage of these open spaces for all manner of recreational activity, including..shooting and fishing, and tramping and mountaineering.
1959 Times Rev. Industry June 45/3 Abolition of tramping and conduct of all long-distance movement through..regular trunk services with sufficient terminal arrangements.
1963 N.Z. Woman's Weekly 17 June 18/3 [At Jackson Bay] we have the best deer shooting, tramping country and scenery in New Zealand.
1968 P. G. Hollowell Lorry Driver iii. 71 Tramping, in contrast to the monotony of trunking, is mainly liked for the variety it affords, both in the types of loads carried, the different parts of the country which are seen, [etc.].
1975 N.Z. News 9 July 5/2 Proper equipment enabled a six-strong tramping party..to survive near freezing temperatures in the rugged Pouakai Ranges.
1984 N.Z. Woman's Weekly 30 Apr. 121/2 Tramping, mountaineering and trout fishing are other attractions in the Nelson Lakes National Park.
tramping-card n. a certificate issued to a member of a trade organization, entitling him to maintenance while tramping in search of employment.
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1897 S. Webb & B. Webb Industr. Democracy I. ii. i. 153 And ‘out-of-work pay’, from the old-fashioned ‘tramping card’ to the modern ‘donation’ given when a member loses his employment by the temporary breakdown of machinery.
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tramping-drum n. in Leather-dressing, a revolving chamber in which hides are saturated with oil or dubbing to make them pliable ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
tramping-machine n. see quot. 1904.
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1904 Sci. Amer., Supp. 27 Feb. 23534/3 Tubbing is gradually giving way..to the ‘tramping machine’... This machine is adapted from the French apparatus for fulling wool stock. It consists of two wooden hammers, which are moved alternately back and forth or up and down in a suitable receptacle, agitating the skins slowly and constantly,..and developing by friction the necessary heat, thus rendering the pelts soft and pliable.
tramping-pestle n. one of the hammers in this machine.
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1878 E. Schiller Eng. Germ. Fr. Technol. Dict. Tramping-pestle.
Draft additions 1993
To dismiss from employment; to sack. Australian slang.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge
to put awaya1387
discharge1428
dismiss1477
to put out of wages1542
discard1589
to turn away1602
to put off1608
disemploy1619
to pay off1648
to pay off1651
to turn out1667
to turn off1676
quietus1688
strip1756
trundle1794
unshop1839
shopc1840
to lay off1841
sack1841
drop1845
to give (a person) the shoot1846
bag1848
swap1862
fire1879
to knock off1881
bounce1884
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888
bump1899
spear1911
to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911
terminate1920
tramp1941
shitcan1961
pink slip1966
dehire1970
resize1975
to give a person his jotters1990
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 78 Tramped, dismissed from employment.
1948 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 June 23/4 During a recent shearing he sacked a man; but the wife, seeing the shearer walking to the office to get his cheque, stopped him. He told her that he'd been ‘tramped’.
1953 T. A. G. Hungerford Riverslake ii. 20 If Verity was going to tramp you for burning the tucker..he would have rubbished you long before this.
1961 D. Stuart Driven x. 82 They're getting ready to tramp old Danny Horton. He's managed the place for over twenty years, but it won't be long before those two get rid of him.
1975 B. Foley Shearers' Poems 2 His dread of getting ‘tramped’ Because his eyes were on the blink Nearly drove him up the flamin' wall.
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† trampv.2
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To steep, soak; const. in. Also intransitive for passive. Also figurative.
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1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. C2 Applicand ye samin..vpon ye partis pectoralis, wt ane lytill scarlote trampit in ye decoctioun.
1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.4v Quhat..hart..full of fellonie, toung trampit in dissait.
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 209 Let the end of the pellet or Uvula trampe in it.
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