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单词 tramp
释义 tramp
I. \ˈtramp, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, in senses vi 1 & vt 1 chiefly dial ˈträmp or -rȯmp\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English trampen; akin to Middle Low German trampen to stamp, tread, Middle Dutch tramperen to stamp, Norwegian dialect trumpa to push, shove, Gothic anatrimpan to crowd, Middle Dutch trappen to stamp — more at trap
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to walk or tread especially with a heavy step
  < a steady stream of visitors tramps every day through the magnificent exhibition — Mollie Panter-Downes >
  < man who was tramping across the square in climbing boots — Willa Cather >
  < heard them tramp upstairs — Arnold Bennett >
  < tramp on someone's toes >
 b. : to press one's foot
  < tramped down on the gas pedal — Oakley Hall >
2.
 a. : to travel about on foot : hike
  < spent his holidays tramping all over our native land — Joseph Conrad >
  < finds relaxation in … tramping in the woods — Current Biography >
  < tramped and climbed among the heights — H.N.Fowler >
 b. : to journey as a tramp
3.
 a. : to travel as a tramp ship
  < three tiny steamers tramping between Suez and Mukalla — Ladislas Farago >
 b. : to travel on a tramp ship
transitive verb
1. : to tread on forcibly and usually repeatedly : trample so as to bruise or press down
 < tramp grapes for wine >
 < dig out the ground three feet deep, put in a foot of straw, leaves, or coarse litter, wet it thoroughly, and tramp it down one half — Emily Holt >
 < tramping the top of your silage 10 to 15 minutes a day for a week after filling will reduce top spoilage — Deerfield (Wisc.) Independent >
2.
 a. : to travel or wander through on foot : hike or trudge through or along
  < rode the subways and tramped the streets — E.A.Weeks >
  < a naturalist tramping the forests >
 b. : to make by trudging or hiking
  < left home to tramp his way over the country — R.L.Taylor >
II. \ˈtramp, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, in senses 3-5 chiefly dial ˈträmp or -rȯmp\ noun
(-s)
1.
 a. : a foot traveler : tramper
  < youthful tramps in search of work — Siegfried Kracauer >
 b. : a begging or thieving vagrant; especially : a lazy good-for-nothing beggar or sponger who travels about but will not work
  < the tramp reappeared time and again as the hero of screen adventures — Lewis Jacobs >
 c. : a woman of loose morals; specifically : prostitute
  < the rigid stateside demarcations between the nice girl and the trampChristian Science Monitor >
  < a girl who can't quite make up her mind whether she wants to be a wife or a kept woman or just a tramp off to try her luck in New York — Wolcott Gibbs >
2. : a journey on foot : a walking trip : hike
 < forth for a long tramp — C.G.Bowers >
 < go for tramps on Saturday afternoons — Elizabeth Bowen >
3. : the act of tramping
 < the dry ground was packed from the tramp of thousands of cattle and horses — J.F.Dobie >
also : a mark produced by this act
4. : the succession of sounds made by the beating of feet of men or animals on a road, pavement, or floor
 < the rhythmic tramp of marching armies — C.T.Lanham >
 < the tramps of so many horses — Walt Whitman >
5.
 a. : a plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot or the shoe when digging with a spade; also : the part of the spade against which the foot is forced in digging
 b. : a spiked piece of iron worn on the shoe in curling to prevent slipping
6. or tramp ship or tramp steamer : a ship not making regular trips between the same ports but taking a cargo when and where it offers and to any port
7. : an unwanted up-and-down movement of an automobile on its front wheels
 < tended to set up violent shimmy and tramp on the front end at high speeds — Roger Huntington >
8. : trampoline
Synonyms: see vagabond
III. \ˈtramp, -aa(ə)-, -ai-\ adjective
Etymology: tramp (II)
1. : having no fixed abode, connection, or destination
 < a tramp dog >
 < a tramp printer >
 < a tramp and vagrant world, adrift in space — William James >
2. : unwanted, contaminating — used especially of metallic particles
 < whenever tramp iron threatens to contaminate a process or product, damage machinery, or give rise to sparking, magnets are the sentries that keep it out — Steelways >
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