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▪ I. tramp, n.1|træmp|
[f. tramp v.1]
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.
1808–18Jamieson, Tramp.., the act of striking the foot suddenly downwards. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 397 [To horses] Tramps are dangerous, besides causing blemishes on the foot,..they may cause quittor. 1859Autobiog. Beggar Boy 46 Having my right foot severely wounded on the instep, by the tramp of a horse. 1878Browning Poets Croisic lxi, As the reed Is crushed beneath its tramp.
b. More fully axle tramp. Alternate bouncing of wheels on the same axle.
1935Story of Knee Action (General Motors Corp.) 3 Such erratic wheel movements as ‘shimmy’ and ‘tramp’ should be eliminated. 1959Motor Manual (ed. 36) v. 121 Independent rear suspension..offers the advantages of reduction of unsprung weight and the elimination of axle tramp and patter. 1977Drive Sept.–Oct. 120/2 Banging and jumping from the rear axle..on fast take-offs from rest or in mid-corner (a condition called ‘axle tramp’). 1982Motor 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.
1817Moore Lalla R., Fire-W. iv, Heard'st thou not the tramp of men Sounding from yonder fearful glen? 1856Aytoun Bothwell ii. iii, Does yet the court-yard ring with tramp Of horses and of men. 1889Quiller Couch Splendid Spur (1895) 121 The monotonous tramp-tramp through the slush and mire of the roads. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xlvi, The tramp of the changing sentries..might be to her the echoing footfall of death.
fig.1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 186 To feel in her ears the dull tramp of the blood.
3. a. A bout of tramping or journeying on foot; a long, tiring, or toilsome walk or march; a trudge; a walking excursion (colloq.).
1786Burns Brigs of Ayr 188 If haply Knowledge, on a random tramp, Had shor'd them wi' a glimmer of his lamp. 1822T. Bewick Mem. 138 This [journey] may be regarded as merely one of my ‘tramps’. 1845J. Coulter Adv. Pacific x. 120, I continued my tramp round the easternmost part of the island. 1859Jephson Brittany xvii. 285, I doubted whether I should be in a condition for a tramp of thirty miles. 1873Tristram Moab ix. 170 Files of hundreds of camels slowly following each other in the weary tramp to Mecca. 1898J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. IX. No. 34. 104 Much exhausted by a long tramp in hot weather. 1966Weekly News (N.Z.) 3 Aug. 7/4 Two-day tramps from the Milford Hotel up to the Sutherland Falls. 1984N.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.
1760Life & Adv. of Cat 147 An English vagrant, on the common tramp (as they express it). 1813T. 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. 1866D. 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 Childr. iii, Just on tramp she seems to have been.
4. a. A person on the tramp; = tramper 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.
1664in Verney Mem. (1904) II. 204 Thay goo so Lick trampis, so durty, tis a sham to see them. 1790Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Tramp, a tramp; a beggar. Sussex. 1808Agric. Mag. III. 43 A certain class of wandering labourers known by the name of tramps. 1828Craven Gloss., Tramp, a pedlar; called also a tramper, an itinerant tinker, or one who travels with any kind of wares. 1842Rep. Sanitary Condition Labouring Classes 357 The houses are stages for the various orders of tramps. 1860Ramsay Remin. Ser. i. (ed. 7) 157 A wretched woman, who used to traverse the country as a beggar or tramp. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 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 (orig. U.S.). A sexually promiscuous woman.
1922E. O'Neill Anna Christie i. 119 Sure—and another tramp with her. 1936D. 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. 1971Sunday 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. 1979R. 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.
c1880[Remembered in colloquial use]. 1886Shipping Gaz. 9 July, We think few will deny that the ‘ocean tramp’ is the product of competition. 1891M. 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[see ocean 3 c]. 1893Naut. 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. attrib., as tramp steamer, tramp vessel, tramp trade.
1887Shipping 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. 1891Pall Mall G. 21 May 2/1 In many of our tramp boats there is need of great reform in the food supplied to our sailors. 1897Daily News 26 Jan. 3/6 His complaint was against tramp vessels, which were often undermanned. 1902Westm. 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. 1903Ibid. 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 attrib.
1905Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 141 These heavy freighters fly down to Halifax direct... They are the biggest tramps aloft. 1948Shell 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. b. Curling. A piece of spiked iron fastened to the sole of the shoe to give a firm foot-hold on the ice.
1825Jamieson, Tramp, a plate of iron worn by ditchers below the centre of the foot, for working on their spades. 1830H. Duncan in Poets Dumfries. ix. (1910) 266 Gae get you besom, tramps, an' stane, An' join the friendly strife, man. 1844[see tramp-pick in 7]. 1891Kerr Maggie o' the Moss 61 (E.D.D.) Wi' tramps on their feet, and besoms in han'. 1894Northumbld. Gloss., 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.
7. attrib. (see also 5 b, c) and Comb., as (in sense 4) tramp-printer, tramp-scarer, tramp-ward, tramp-woman; tramp-like adj.; tramp-cell, a workhouse cell in which vagrants are lodged; tramp-clog = sense 6 a; tramp-cock, tramp-coll [coll n.5], a heap of hay compressed by treading; tramp-house, a lodging-house for tramps; tramp-master, a workhouse official charged with the control of the vagrants admitted; tramp-pick (Sc.), a narrow, pointed pick, with a tread, for breaking up stiff ground; tramp-rick, † -ruck, a rick or stack of hay compressed by treading.
1905Daily Chron. 22 Sept. 5/6 He was taken back to the workhouse, and placed in a *tramp cell.
1894Northumbld. Gloss., *Tramp-clog or tramp,..a piece of iron plate..used as a guard where the spade is trodden in digging.
1775Ann. Reg. ii. 129/2 In these cocks, I allow the hay to remain until..I judge that it will keep in pretty large *tramp-cocks.
1825Jamieson, *Tramp-coll.., a number of colls or cocks of hay put into one and tramped hard, in order that the hay may be farther dried. Aberd.
1850[C. Rogers] Bairnsla Ann. 42 (E.D.D.) A *tramp-hause. 1899Sir G. Douglas Jas. Hogg 146 In common tramp-houses, a death is..a god⁓send.
1904Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 8/3 A *tramp-like personage stands sentinel complacently over a terrific bulldog.
1887Leamington Spa Courier 30 Apr. 5/6 Persons willing to undertake the duties of *Tramp Master at the Workhouse. 1895Daily News 5 Oct. 6/6 He maintained that..the trampmaster in Salford, had some knowledge of human nature.
1813G. 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. 1844Stephens Bk. 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.
1895Westm. 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.
1799J. Robertson 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. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. 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.
1588Exchequer Rolls Scot. XXI. 412 For making of 36 dawarkis of hay..and for wynning and putting of the samyn in *tramp ruckis.
1905Blackw. Mag. Dec. 817/2 The poor animal fulfils his function as a *tramp⁓scarer.
1906Westm. Gaz. 14 May 12/2 [One] who, disguised as a tramp, has spent days and nights in *tramp-wards, lodging-houses, and shelters.
1902Hardy Time's Laughingstocks (1909) 11 (poem title) A *trampwoman's tragedy.
Hence ˈtrampage, the habit or condition of a tramp, vagrancy (U.S.); ˈtrampdom, the ‘realm’ or sphere of tramps; ˈtrampess, a female tramp; ˈtrampish a., like or like that of a tramp; ˈtrampishly adv., in a trampish manner; ˈtrampism, the practice of going on tramp.
1894Chicago Advance 3 May, A menace, a nuisance all along the line of their *trampage. 1897Plantation Missionary (Oberlin, Ohio) Dec., The poor [may be] rescued from pauperism, trampage and crime.
1891Contemp. 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. 1895Century Mag. Oct. 945/1 The love of liquor brings more men and women into trampdom.
1897Raine Welsh Singer 95 (E.D.D.) She was a *trampess who died in John Powys' barn.
1861Sala in Temple Bar Mag. III. 299 A *trampish woman with a tambourine. 1890New York Sun Feb., The depot policeman was shoving a trampish-looking man out of the place.
1889Harper's Mag. Nov. 831/2 The battered folding-doors *trampishly lean against the walls.
1893Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 5 Sept., The plans will check idiotic processions and *trampism, and men who will not work will get out of the city. 1894in Review of Rev. May 608/2, I make no defense of trampism nor vagabondage.
Add: ˈtramphood n. rare, the state or condition of being a tramp.
1963Time & 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. 1985P. Auster City of Glass xi. 165 Some beg with a semblance of pride... Others have given up hope of ever leaving their tramphood.
▪ II. † tramp, trampe, n.2 Obs.
Also 7 trempe.
[ad. Fr. trempe temper of steel (15th c.), f. tremper to temper.]
Temper of iron or steel. Also fig.
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 98 b, If you doe euer make any proofe of trial to know of what trampe the arrowes of Loue be. Ibid. 166 b, The King of England..sent him an excellent harness with a sword of the self same tramp. 1581Rich Farew. (Shaks. Soc.) 40 With what trampe bee wee tempered withall. 1581A. Hall Iliad x. 179 His sword..with point of perfect trampe. 1684T. Goddard Plato's Demon 40 Both Respect and Obedience too, will break, when bent with too much Rigor and beyond their Trempe.
▪ III. tramp, v.1|træmp|
[ME. trampe-n = Ger., LG. trampen (whence Da. trampe, Swed., Norw. trampa) to stamp:—OTeut. *tramp-, 2nd grade of *tremp, *tramp, *trump to stamp, tread (whence Goth. ana-trimpan to tread or press upon, also MHG. trumpfen to run, Norw. dial. trumpa to knock or push); a nasalized form of OTeut. *trep, *trap: see trap n.2]
1. intr. To tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resonant step; to stamp.
1388Wyclif Prov. vi. 13 He bekeneth with iȝen, he trampith [1382 tramplith, Vulg. terit pede] with the foot, he spekith with the fyngur. a1485Promp. Parv. 499/1 (MS. S.) Trampyn [v.r. trampelyn], tero. 1570Levins Manip. 18/40 To Trampe, strepitare. 1865Kingsley Herew. x, They had passed down the street, tramping and gingling and caracoling. 1877Talmage Serm. 23 Hearest thou not the trembling of the ground, as the thunders of the judgment-day are tramping on?
2. intr. To tread heavily or with force (on or upon something); to stamp (upon): = trample v. 3. to tramp on any one's toes (fig.), to infringe or encroach on his rights or privileges; to ‘come down upon’ with injurious effect; to take undue advantage of.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. (S.T.S.) 123 Bewar that ȝe neuir trampe thairon [on a grave] with ȝour fute. 1641Ferguson's Sc. Prov. (1785) 30 Tramp on a snail and she'll shoot out her horns. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xxxviii, The black cow has nae trampet yet Upo' your taes. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 768 [The hides] are then tramped upon by a workman walking repeatedly from one end of the vat to the other. 1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. 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. trans. 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; fig. to treat with contempt.
1533Gau Richt Vay (S.T.S.) 40/4 He suld tramp dwne the heid of the serpent. Ibid. 104/17 As the suine trampis the precious peirl onder thair feit. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 86 b, The camamele, the more ye tread it and trampe it, the sweter it smelleth. 1581N. Burne Disput. in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 167 Murther of spiritual magistratis..be tramping the memoriallis of al religione in guttaris. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 15 They see the painfull Vigneron pull the grapes: First tramping them, and after pressing now The grenest clusters gathered into heapes. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 266 A woman is appointed to tramp the straw, [and] spread it regularly over the mow that is forming. 1848Lytton Harold i. iii, 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. Sc.
1798Monthly Mag. Dec. 438/1 To tramp clothes. 1807Carr Caledonian Sk. (1809) 226 In my way from Hopetounhouse to Linlithgow I saw the process of tramping, that is, of washing. 1842Aiton 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. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold viii, On washing days, it was tucked up above the knees to ‘tramp the claes’.
c. refl. Of a horse: To injure itself by setting one foot on another: cf. tramp n.1 1.
1844Stephens Bk. 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. dial.
1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 33, I must..proceed to the flats and tramp flounders for our breakfast.
4. a. intr. To walk; esp. to walk steadily or heavily; to trudge; to travel on foot; to go on a walking expedition (colloq.); N.Z. spec. to walk for long distances in rough country. Also tramp it.
1643in Verney Mem. (1904) I. 302 Now the owld man must trampe on foote. 1720Humourist 51 Your Hunters of News, who tramp it half a Score Streets, to know who has got a Wife or a Place. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, My darling boy, whom I would tramp barefooted through the world for. 1820Clare Rural Life (ed. 3) 91 I've oft meant tramping o'er to see ye. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xlvii, These people, who go tramping about the country. 1862W. J. Stewart in Macm. Mag. May 32 The miner must be prepared to tramp it to that part of the Quesnelle or Cariboo gold-fields. 1935, etc. [implied in tramping vbl. n.]. 1984N.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. colloq.
1846Swell's Night Guide 134/2 Tramp, to wander as a beggar. 1891in Cent. Dict. 1898J. 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. 1909Bodleian Mar. 7/1 I'd rather have tramped it than have gone in for any top-hatted occupation.
5. a. trans. To walk through or over with heavy or weary tread; to traverse on foot, spec. as a tramp.
a1774Fergusson Ode to Bee 45 Whether they tramp life's thorny way, Or thro' the sunny vineyard stray. a1809Holcroft Mem. (1816) I. 23, I and my mother were..tramping the villages to hawk our pedlary. a1885in J. Irving West Scotl. in Hist. 217 They..tramped the Trongate in pattens and caléche. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 10 He tramped the island in pursuit of his calling. 1895P. 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. colloq.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxvii. (1856) 220 Leaving the deck, where I have been tramping the cold out of my joints, I come below. 1892Field 14 May 732/2 You will tramp your boots and feet into order.
6. a. intr. To make a voyage on a tramp steamer; also trans. to run (a tramp steamer). colloq.
1899Cutcliffe Hyne Further Adv. Capt. Kettle viii, He heartily wished himself away back on the steamer, tramping for cargo. Ibid. 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.
1959[implied in tramping vbl. n.]. 1968in 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 advb.: cf. bang, etc.
1796Scott William & Helen xlvii, Tramp! tramp! along the land they rode; Splash! splash! along the sea.
Hence tramped |træmpt| ppl. a.; tramped pike, a large rick of hay compressed by tramping: cf. tramp-cock, -rick, tramp n.1 7; ˈtramping vbl. n. and ppl. a.; tramping-card, a certificate issued to a member of a trade organization, entitling him to maintenance while tramping in search of employment; tramping-drum, in Leather-dressing, a revolving chamber in which hides are saturated with oil or dubbing to make them pliable (Cent. Dict. 1891); tramping-machine: see quot. 1904; tramping-pestle, one of the hammers in this machine.
1660in Archæologia XI. 100 Armorers Tooles. Small Bickernes, Tramping Stakes, Round stakes, Welting stakes. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest vi, They were alarmed..by the tramping of horses near the abbey. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xii, I am not so far to seek for a dwelling, that the same roof should cover me and a tramping princess like that. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm III. 970 The large ricks thus formed are named tramped pikes. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting v. 112, I left..on a tramping tour into the Zulu country. 1878E. Schiller Eng. Germ. Fr. Technol. Dict., Tramping-pestle. 1893J. McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 110 The tramping feet of the policemen. 1897Webb 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. 1904Sci. 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. 1935J. Guthrie Little Country xxi. 319 The members of the Tem Tramping Club. 1959A. 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. 1959Times Rev. Industry June 45/3 Abolition of tramping and conduct of all long-distance movement through..regular trunk services with sufficient terminal arrangements. 1963N.Z. Woman's Weekly 17 June 18/3 [At Jackson Bay] we have the best deer shooting, tramping country and scenery in New Zealand. 1968P. 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.]. 1975N.Z. News 9 July 5/2 Proper equipment enabled a six-strong tramping party..to survive near freezing temperatures in the rugged Pouakai Ranges. 1984N.Z. Woman's Weekly 30 Apr. 121/2 Tramping, mountaineering and trout fishing are other attractions in the Nelson Lakes National Park.
Add:[3.] e. To dismiss from employment; to sack. Austral. slang.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 78 Tramped, dismissed from employment. 1948Bulletin (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’. 1953T. 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. 1961D. 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. 1975B. Foley Shearers' Poems 2 His dread of getting ‘tramped’ Because his eyes were on the blink Nearly drove him up the flamin' wall.
▪ IV. † tramp, v.2 Sc. Obs. rare.
Also 7 trampe.
[ad. F. tremper to soak, steep (trans. and intr.), temper (iron or steel); also to be implicated (in); by metathesis from *temprer, ad. L. temperāre to temper, qualify, modify: see temper v., tremp. Cf. tramp n.2]
trans. To steep, soak; const. in. Also intr. for pass. Also fig.
1568G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 35 Applicand the samin..vpon the partis pectoralis, with ane lytill scarlote trampit in the decoctioun. 1570Buchanan Admonitioun Wks. (1892) 24 Wt..hart..full of fellony toung trampit in dissait. 1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 209 Let the end of the pellet or Uvula trampe in it. |