单词 | on tramp |
释义 | > as lemmason (the) tramp b. on (the) tramp, on one's way from place to place on foot, esp. in search of employment, or wandering as a vagrant. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > travelling from place to place [phrase] > wandering > as a tramp on (also upon) the road1642 on the pad1665 on (the) tramp1760 on the wallaby track1865 on (also in) a (or the) shaughraun1922 on the swag1941 1760 Life & Adventures of Cat 147 An English vagrant, on the common tramp (as they express it). 1813 ‘T. 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. 1866 D. 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 Children iii. 21 Just on tramp she seems to have been. < as lemmas |
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