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▪ I. trample, n.|ˈtræmp(ə)l|
[f. trample v.]
An act or the action of trampling.
1604Meeting of Gallants at Ordinarie (Percy Soc.) 13 They ran..in the middle of the street, with such a violent Trample as if the Diuell had bene Coachman. 1641Milton Reform. ii. ad fin., Under the despightfull controule, the trample and spurne of all the other Damned. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 93 Destruction's trample treads them down. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics xiii. iii. (1860) II. 273 The earth shakes with the trample of a myriad hoofs. 1902M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp 143 The elephant is preparing for his final trample [on a man].
▪ II. trample, v.|ˈtræmp(ə)l|
Also 5 trampel, 6 -pell.
[ME. trampel-en, trample-n, in form a frequentative of tramp v.1 (see -le 3): cf. the analogous MHG., Ger., LG. trampeln.]
1. intr. To tread or walk heavily; to stamp. (In early use app. not differing in sense from tramp v.1)
1382Wyclif Prov. vi. 13 He tramplith [1388 trampith, Vulg. terit] with the foot. 14..Beryn 1350 He trampelid fast with his feet, & al to-tare his ere. c1440Promp. Parv. 499/1 Trampelyn (S. trampyn), tero. 1530Palsgr. 760/2 The boyes trampell so over my heed, that I can nat slepe. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 37 His stubborne steed..Who under him did trample as the aire, And chauft that any on his backe should sitt. 1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 320 Certaine others..gathered their Ananas in the Indians gardens, trampling through them without any descretion. 1891Kipling Light that Failed x. (1900) 177 The Keneu and the Nilghai were trampling behind him, calling for Dick.
†b. trans. To tread, traverse; cf. tramp v.1 5; also intr. with on. Obs. rare.
1595A. Fletcher in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 476 Walking rightly, Still trampling vertue's path. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 128, I was the second Man [that] Trampled on the Top [of the mountain pass].
†2. intr. To go or travel on foot; = tramp v.1 4; also to go between, to act as an intermediary: cf. trampler b. Obs. rare.
1624Gee Foot out of Snare xiii. 83 [He] hath rambled and trampled many miles abroad to bring nothing home. 1631T. Powell Tom All Trades (1876) 155 They [civil lawyers] admit of few or no Sollicitors, to trample betweene them and the Clyent. So that the Fee comes to them immediately and with the more advantage.
3. intr. with on, upon, over.
a. lit. To tread repeatedly upon with heavy or crushing steps. Also in indirect passive.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 64 It delighteth to growe by high waies..and to be trode and trampled on. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 86 For making of Terrasses, they lay..half a foot thick of Earth, but which sinks to far less being trampled and tread upon. 1798Monthly Mag. Dec. 438/1 The Scotch lass..kilts (tucks) her petticoats above her knees and tramples or dances upon the linen, in a tub. 1879H. Phillips Notes Coins 10 A denarius of Julius Caesar bears an elephant trampling upon a snake.
b. fig. To treat with contempt; to violate the claims or rights of; to domineer or tyrannize over; † to encroach upon the rights of (obs.).
1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 93 Trample not on the imperfections of any. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xxiii. (1674) 26 They should be trampled upon by the most barbarous Nations of the earth. 1692tr. Sallust 152 [They] trample over your Faces magnificently, boasting their chief Pontificates. 1759Johnson Idler No. 57 ⁋3 Wit tramples upon rules. 1799Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) IV. 82, I am jealous of being trampled upon. 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 70 His friends..were being trampled upon by the populace whom he despised.
4. trans. To tread heavily and (esp.) injuriously upon; to crush, break down, or destroy by heavy treading; also to trample down, trample under foot.
1530Palsgr. 760/2 Se howe this way is trampelled. 1596L. Mascall Cattle 71 To gather vp more cleane, and not for to trample so much vnder their feete. 1611Bible Matt. vii. 6 Neither cast yee your pearles before swine: lest they trample them vnder their feet. 1650Trapp Comm. Deut. xvii. 2 He can as easily blast an oak, as trample a mushrome. 1725[see tramper 1 b]. 1813Scott Rokeby v. xxxiii, Trampling down the dying man. 1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike i. 11 He would trample us under foot if he could. 1853Whewell Grotius III. 290 The lands of neutrals are not to be trampled. 1878Browning Poets Croisic xxxvii, As an ox Tramples a flower-bed in a garden.
b. fig.
1583Babington Commandm. ii. 97 [If] our heartes were not altogether so hard trampled and beaten as they are. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 982 To insult over Sparta..and at once to tread and trample under foot the high spirit and reputation of that city. 1675E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 14 Thus they trample all Learning under foot. 1793Cowper Bill Mortality vii, Who trample order; and the day, Which God asserts His own, Dishonour. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 187 The party which had been vanquished, trampled down, and..annihilated.
5. trans. To put in or out by tramping or stamping; esp. to trample out (fire); in quot. 1848, to make or cause by trampling.
1573–80Baret Alv. T 344 To tread or trample out: to wring out, exculco. 1842Browning Cristina vii, The world's honours, in derision, Trampled out the light for ever. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xii, I don't want Frederick to trample a hole in my muslin frock. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 113 The security against a spread of the conflagration was to trample it out upon the spot. |