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1892 Dial. Notes 1 234 Tromp = tramp.

1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage x. 105 Yeh wanta go trompin' off.

1902 Dial. Notes 2 248 He tromped my toe.

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary vi. 54 You'll tromp on a loose boa'd and find yoself downstairs befo you know hit.

1940 J. Stuart Trees of Heaven 251 Somebody has..tromped the vines into the ground.

1952 E. Ferber Giant xx. 334 You want to look out, Bick, she don't get tromped the way they're milling around today.

1953 R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together i. xi. 109 White-robed figures..sang hymns and clapped their hands, and some shook tambourines, and they tromped, jumping and grunting rhythmically.

1962 J. Steinbeck Trav. with Charley i. 12 About that time hurricane Donna was reported tromping her way out of the Caribbean.

1968 J. Crist Private Eye, Cowboy & Very Naked Girl 193 Beatniks tromping grapes in the buff.

1974 J. Irving 158-Pound Marriage v. 117 Edith heard Frau Reiner and the Chetniks whispering and tromping about in the living room.

1976 M. Machlin Pipeline xlvii. 491 He wouldn't care who he tromped on to get there, either.

1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 501 Tromping through the ice plants is a botanical education in itself.

1953 R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together i. xi. 109 And while the singing and tromping was going on on the river bank, the initiates for baptism came down one by one from a high rock.

1975 New Musical Express 24 May 20/1 Heat and noise and darkness and a steady, muffled tromping that you can feel through your feet.