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▪ I. ˈtrampling, vbl. n. [f. trample v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb trample.
c1440Promp. Parv. 499/1 Trampelynge, tritura. 1530Palsgr. 282/2 Tramplynge with fete, marchage. 1577Googe tr. Heresbach's Husb. i. 45 Your Meddowes..Let them be kept from..trampling of Cattel. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 170 Bringing the Dung..(which cannot be done without much trampling on the Soil). 1828Scott F.M. Perth iii, After some..trampling up and down stairs, Dorothy appeared. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. xv. 286 The universal silence was first broken by the trampling of the invaders, on the leaves with which the face of the woody mountain was thickly strewed. ▪ II. ˈtrampling, ppl. a. [f. trample v. + -ing2.] That tramples, in various senses of the verb.
1581Sidney Astr. & Stella lxxxiv, My Muse..Tempers her words to trampling horses feete More oft then to a chamber-melodie. 1608Middleton Trick to Catch Old One iv. v, A just judgment..upon usury, extortion, and trampling villany! 1697Dryden æneid iii. 854 Trampling feet that shake the solid ground. 1839Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus xvi, The sound of the trampling surf On the rocks. |