单词 | tamping |
释义 | tampingn. a. The action of tamp v.: the plugging or filling up of a blast-hole above the charge; the packing of the part of a military mine nearest the charge with earth or other material. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > [noun] > laying of mines > plugging of hole above charge tampinga1824 a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 303/1 The sand-bags used for tamping should not be filled up to the top. 1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 301 The stoppage, or tamping of a mine. b. concrete. The material used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > quantity used in blasting operation > charge > material for tamping charge stemming1791 tamping1828 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 120/2 It would have found vent by blowing out the tamping. 1909 Installation News 3 63 The upper casting, to which the cable or tape is electrically connected by lead tamping. Compounds C1. General attributive. tamping material n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 836 Dry sand is sometimes used as a tamping material. tamping purposes n. ΚΠ 1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 116 Sandbags ready filled for tamping purposes should be provided. C2. tamping-bar n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with explosives > tamper pote1372 tamping-bar1838 stemmer1860 tamper1864 tamping-iron1864 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 292/1 Drawings of the jumpers, the tamping bar, the needle, and the discharging reed. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 75 It was pick and shovel and tamping bar day in and day out. tamping-iron n. = stemmer n.1: see quot. 1877. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with explosives > tamper pote1372 tamping-bar1838 stemmer1860 tamper1864 tamping-iron1864 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tamping-iron. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tamping-iron, a tool, prudently made of copper, by which the tamping is wadded down upon the cartridge or charge in a hole, for blasting. tamping-machine n. see quot. ΚΠ 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tamping-machine.., a machine for packing clay or the material for artificial stone into a mold. tamping-plug n. a plug or stopper used to block up a bore-hole. ΚΠ 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tamping-plug,..it usually consists of a cone with barbs, or of a set of wedge-shaped blocks, which jam by the pressure from beneath. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tampingadv.adj. Welsh English. A. adv. tamping mad: furiously angry; intensely annoyed. Cf. bouncing mad at bouncing adv. Additions, hopping mad adj. at hopping adj.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry grim971 aweddeOE woodlyc1000 anburstc1275 woodc1275 aburstc1300 eagerc1325 brotheful1330 brothely1330 furiousc1374 wroth as (the) wind1377 throc1380 fella1382 wrothlya1400 grindelc1400 raginga1425 furibund1490 bremit1535 outraging1567 fulminant?1578 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 snuff1582 woodful1582 maddeda1586 rageful1585 furibundal1593 gary1609 fierce1611 wild1653 infuriate1667 hopping mad1675 maddened1735 sulphureous1751 savage1789 infuriated1796 bouncing mad1834 frenzy1859 furyinga1861 ropeable1870 furied1878 fulminous1886 livid1888 fit to be tied1894 hopping1894 fighting mad1896 tamping mad1946 up the wall1951 ravers1967 1946 C. Morgan in A. Vaughan Celtic Story 138 Old Si was tamping mad at the thought of all the stories being raked up again and his house standing empty. 1987 R. W. Jones Cop Out xix. 214 ‘Bugger off, I would,’ Evans told him, ‘before Sergeant Beddoes gets back. Tamping mad, he is.’ 2000 R. Kay Saul iii. 95 ‘So, how've you been today?’ ‘I've been tamping mad, that's what.’ B. adj. Furiously angry; intensely annoyed; = tamping mad at sense A. ΚΠ 1973 I. Waters Folklore & Dial. Lower Wye Valley 33 Tamping, very angry. 1999 S. Wales Evening Post 4 Dec. (Weekend Sporting Suppl.) 12/1 We played Derry City earlier in the season and gave them a 3-0 thumping... Their centre-half..was still tamping when we played them last Saturday. 2017 @ourrachblogs 1 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If I haven't lost at least half a stone in weight this week then I'm gonna be tamping, fuming, raging. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1824adv.adj.1946 |
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