Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Tramp   /træmp/   Listen
noun
Tramp  n.  
1.
A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
2.
A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
3.
The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
4.
A tool for trimming hedges.
5.
A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.


verb
Tramp  v. t.  (past & past part. tramped; pres. part. tramping)  
1.
To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
2.
To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. (Colloq.)
3.
To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. (Scot.)


Tramp  v. i.  To travel; to wander; to stroll.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Tramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... over when a curious rolling sound was heard, followed by the tramp of horses: and Aubrey jumped up to look, for it was half-an-hour too soon for the baggage-horses to be brought. He had to run into the porch-chamber to see what it was, and before he returned came old Roger the serving-man, with a ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... piece of news I have to tell you is, that the gallery is finished; that is, the workmen have quitted it. For chairs and tables, not one is arrived yet. Well, how you will tramp up and down in it! Methinks I wish you would. We are in the perfection of beauty; verdure itself was never green till this summer, thanks to the deluges of rain. Our complexion used to be mahogany in August. Nightingales and ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... at once, told her that the barrow-hunt was winding homewards; gleams of colour athwart the hedges told her that the hunters were in the lane; and in a minute or two Miss Wendover and her young kins-folk appeared, all more or less sunburnt and towzled by their tramp across the downs. ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... lamp, Which lit the darkness, small and wan, Searched where the mules did tramp and stamp, Amid the litter and the damp, For some small place to ...
— Lundy's Lane and Other Poems • Duncan Campbell Scott
... when he could have had his loaf for the asking?" remonstrated Sweetwater. "Agatha Webb would have gone without a meal any time to feed a wandering tramp; how much more to supply the necessities of two of her oldest and ...
— Agatha Webb • Anna Katharine Green


More quotes...


Copyright © 2026 Free-Translator.com