tampv.

Brit.

/tamp/, U.S.

/tæmp/

Etymology: apparently a 19th cent. workmen's word; perhaps a back-formation < tampin (variant of tampion n.) taken as = tamping.

1. transitive. Mining.

a. To stop up (a bore-hole) with clay, sand, etc., rammed in upon the charge before firing the shot; also, to pack up (a gallery of a military mine) before firing it, in order to concentrate the effect.

ΚΠ

1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 203 Then tamp strongly and carefully the ends of the gallery, leaving the space intended to be demolished void.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 292/1 The hole is tamped with dry clay to the top.

1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 199 The mines will soon be tamped, and the whole nest of temples [over the river at Cawnpore] will leap into the air amid fire and thunder.

b. To ram home (the charge) in a bore-hole. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > other specific activities in mining

trench1786

rob1811

tamp1819

ride1854

slab1871

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > other (coal-)mining procedures

underbeit1670

buck1683

bank1705

bunding1747

urge1758

slappet1811

tamp1819

jowl1825

stack1832

sprag1841

hurry1847

bottom1851

salt1852

pipe1861

mill1868

tram1883

stope1886

sump1910

crow-pick1920

stockpile1921

spec1981

1819 Faraday in B. Jones Life (1870) I. 301 Men..employed in making holes, tamping and blasting the rock.

1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 165/1 To form these chambers the rock was perforated.., and the different proportions of powder were introduced..and ‘tamped up’ close.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Dec. 2/1 All charges should be ‘tamped’—that is, pressed or secured in position with stones or other material wedged around them—wherever possible.

2. To stop up with clay or loamy earth the issues of a blast furnace (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877).

a. To ram down hard, so as to consolidate (earth, gravel, etc.); to pun; = pound v.¹ 6; also to pack (anything) round with earth so rammed down.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > beat flat or solid

rama1450

poss1611

pun1838

pound1850

tamp1879

1879 L. Stockbridge Investig. Rainfall (Boston, U.S.) 5 [The lysimeter] was finished by throwing back and tamping in the earth which had been excavated on three sides.

1890 T. C. Clarke in Railways Amer. 38 The track is raised, the gravel tamped well under the ties, and the track is ready for use.

1909 Installation News 3 63 If the conductor is tamped round with granulated carbon.

b. To pack or consolidate tobacco in (a pipe or cigarette) by a series of light taps. Also with tobacco as object and const. down. Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > fill pipe or cigarette with tobacco

tamp1920

load1927

1920 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider ii. 42 The Captain took out his pipe, tamped it, and with an excess of care lighted it.

1940 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 8/6 The pipe stoppers used to tamp tobacco in the pipe bowl will be on view.

1941 ‘A. MacDonald’ in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Oct. 18/2 The man..took out another cigarette, tamped it on one end, turned it and tamped the other.

1959 J. Cary Captive & Free xxx. 134 Syson settled himself more comfortably and tamped his pipe with the end of a pencil.

1979 PN Rev. No. 9. 35/1 A pipe-smoker Tamps tobacco Down to the base of the pipe bowl.

1981 Guardian 12 Oct. 10/4 A local soul, resting from his labours, tamping the dottle in his pipe.

4. transferred and figurative. To oppress or constrict as by ramming; to subdue or contain by force. Also const. down. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > suppress, repress, or put down

nithereOE

adweschOE

overtreadOE

quellOE

to trample or tread under foot (also feet)c1175

adauntc1325

to bear downc1330

oppressc1380

repressc1391

overyoke?a1425

quencha1425

to bear overc1425

supprisec1440

overquell?c1450

farec1460

supprime1490

downbeara1500

stanch1513

undertread1525

downtread1536

suppress1537

to set one's foot on the neck of1557

depress?a1562

overbear1565

surpress1573

trample1583

repose1663

spiflicate1749

sort1815

to trample down1853

to sit on ——1915

to clamp down1924

crack down1940

tamp1959

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself 19 We've all been flattened by the dead air of this time, dinched and tamped into a flat-footed class.

a1963 S. Plath Ariel (1965) 74 Perfection... Cold as snow breath, it tamps the womb.

1976 Time 27 Sept. 27/2 While inflation has been tamped to just over 6%, unemployment is still high.

1977 Time 18 Apr. 53/2 Carter may be gambling that..he can tamp down the debate over the safety of nuclear power.

Compounds

tamp-work n. a surface made hard by tamping.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > work > product of work > [noun] > other spec.

fingerwork1625

tamp-work1855

artefact1890

1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. xiii. 370 He sees a plain like tamp-work, where knobs of granite act daisies.

Derivatives

tamped adj.

/tæmpt/ made hard and solid by pounding.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > stiff or rigid > stiffened > by specific means

whalebone1602

whaleboneda1634

tamped1875

1875 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land (1876) II. 204 The flooring is hard, tamped clay.

1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. iii. 83 The compact clay and tamped floor.

Draft additions June 2018

5. transitive. Welsh English (esp. Monmouthshire). To bounce (a ball) up and down, esp. rapidly and vigorously. Also intransitive: (of a ball) to bounce.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > rebound > cause to rebound [verb (transitive)]

reboundc1560

brick wall1596

rejerk1606

bricole1611

reflect1613

to beat back1715

bounce1876

tamp1971

1971 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. iii. 927 Q[uestion]. A rubber ball that's punctured won't..[Monmouthshire] tamp.

1973 Anglo-Welsh Rev. Spring 139 As I tamped the ball I would say ‘Charlie Chaplin went to France to teach the ladies how to dance.’

1997 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games with Things viii. 135 In Bristol..children do not ordinarily say they ‘bounce’ the ball—they ‘dap’ it... In Abergavenny they ‘tamp’ it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tamp
释义	tampv. Brit. /tamp/, U.S. /tæmp/ Etymology: apparently a 19th cent. workmen's word; perhaps a back-formation < tampin (variant of tampion n.) taken as = tamping. 1. transitive. Mining. a. To stop up (a bore-hole) with clay, sand, etc., rammed in upon the charge before firing the shot; also, to pack up (a gallery of a military mine) before firing it, in order to concentrate the effect. ΚΠ 1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 203 Then tamp strongly and carefully the ends of the gallery, leaving the space intended to be demolished void. 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 292/1 The hole is tamped with dry clay to the top. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 199 The mines will soon be tamped, and the whole nest of temples [over the river at Cawnpore] will leap into the air amid fire and thunder. b. To ram home (the charge) in a bore-hole. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > other specific activities in mining trench1786 rob1811 tamp1819 ride1854 slab1871 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > other (coal-)mining procedures underbeit1670 buck1683 bank1705 bunding1747 urge1758 slappet1811 tamp1819 jowl1825 stack1832 sprag1841 hurry1847 bottom1851 salt1852 pipe1861 mill1868 tram1883 stope1886 sump1910 crow-pick1920 stockpile1921 spec1981 1819 Faraday in B. Jones Life (1870) I. 301 Men..employed in making holes, tamping and blasting the rock. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 165/1 To form these chambers the rock was perforated.., and the different proportions of powder were introduced..and ‘tamped up’ close. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Dec. 2/1 All charges should be ‘tamped’—that is, pressed or secured in position with stones or other material wedged around them—wherever possible. 2. To stop up with clay or loamy earth the issues of a blast furnace (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877). 3. a. To ram down hard, so as to consolidate (earth, gravel, etc.); to pun; = pound v.¹ 6; also to pack (anything) round with earth so rammed down. ΘΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > beat flat or solid rama1450 poss1611 pun1838 pound1850 tamp1879 1879 L. Stockbridge Investig. Rainfall (Boston, U.S.) 5 [The lysimeter] was finished by throwing back and tamping in the earth which had been excavated on three sides. 1890 T. C. Clarke in Railways Amer. 38 The track is raised, the gravel tamped well under the ties, and the track is ready for use. 1909 Installation News 3 63 If the conductor is tamped round with granulated carbon. b. To pack or consolidate tobacco in (a pipe or cigarette) by a series of light taps. Also with tobacco as object and const. down. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > fill pipe or cigarette with tobacco tamp1920 load1927 1920 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider ii. 42 The Captain took out his pipe, tamped it, and with an excess of care lighted it. 1940 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 8/6 The pipe stoppers used to tamp tobacco in the pipe bowl will be on view. 1941 ‘A. MacDonald’ in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Oct. 18/2 The man..took out another cigarette, tamped it on one end, turned it and tamped the other. 1959 J. Cary Captive & Free xxx. 134 Syson settled himself more comfortably and tamped his pipe with the end of a pencil. 1979 PN Rev. No. 9. 35/1 A pipe-smoker Tamps tobacco Down to the base of the pipe bowl. 1981 Guardian 12 Oct. 10/4 A local soul, resting from his labours, tamping the dottle in his pipe. 4. transferred and figurative. To oppress or constrict as by ramming; to subdue or contain by force. Also const. down. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > suppress, repress, or put down nithereOE adweschOE overtreadOE quellOE to trample or tread under foot (also feet)c1175 adauntc1325 to bear downc1330 oppressc1380 repressc1391 overyoke?a1425 quencha1425 to bear overc1425 supprisec1440 overquell?c1450 farec1460 supprime1490 downbeara1500 stanch1513 undertread1525 downtread1536 suppress1537 to set one's foot on the neck of1557 depress?a1562 overbear1565 surpress1573 trample1583 repose1663 spiflicate1749 sort1815 to trample down1853 to sit on ——1915 to clamp down1924 crack down1940 tamp1959 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself 19 We've all been flattened by the dead air of this time, dinched and tamped into a flat-footed class. a1963 S. Plath Ariel (1965) 74 Perfection... Cold as snow breath, it tamps the womb. 1976 Time 27 Sept. 27/2 While inflation has been tamped to just over 6%, unemployment is still high. 1977 Time 18 Apr. 53/2 Carter may be gambling that..he can tamp down the debate over the safety of nuclear power. Compounds tamp-work n. a surface made hard by tamping. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > work > product of work > [noun] > other spec. fingerwork1625 tamp-work1855 artefact1890 1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. xiii. 370 He sees a plain like tamp-work, where knobs of granite act daisies. Derivatives tamped adj. /tæmpt/ made hard and solid by pounding. ΘΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > stiff or rigid > stiffened > by specific means whalebone1602 whaleboneda1634 tamped1875 1875 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land (1876) II. 204 The flooring is hard, tamped clay. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. iii. 83 The compact clay and tamped floor. Draft additions June 2018 5. transitive. Welsh English (esp. Monmouthshire). To bounce (a ball) up and down, esp. rapidly and vigorously. Also intransitive: (of a ball) to bounce. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > rebound > cause to rebound [verb (transitive)] reboundc1560 brick wall1596 rejerk1606 bricole1611 reflect1613 to beat back1715 bounce1876 tamp1971 1971 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. iii. 927 Q[uestion]. A rubber ball that's punctured won't..[Monmouthshire] tamp. 1973 Anglo-Welsh Rev. Spring 139 As I tamped the ball I would say ‘Charlie Chaplin went to France to teach the ladies how to dance.’ 1997 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games with Things viii. 135 In Bristol..children do not ordinarily say they ‘bounce’ the ball—they ‘dap’ it... In Abergavenny they ‘tamp’ it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1819
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