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tramp

   [tramp]
–verb (used without object)
1. to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
2. to tread heavily or trample (usually fol. by on or upon): to tramp on a person's toes.
3. to walk steadily; march; trudge.
4. to go on a walking excursion or expedition; hike.
5. to go about as a vagabond or tramp.
6. to make a voyage on a tramp steamer.
–verb (used with object)
7. to tramp or walk heavily or steadily through or over.
8. to traverse on foot: to tramp the streets.
9. to tread or trample underfoot: to tramp grapes.
10. to travel over as a tramp.
11. to run (a ship) as a tramp steamer.
–noun
12. the act of tramping.
13. a firm, heavy, resounding tread.
14. the sound made by such a tread.
15. a long, steady walk; trudge.
16. a walking excursion or expedition; hike.
17. a person who travels on foot from place to place, esp. a vagabond living on occasional jobs or gifts of money or food.
18. a sexually promiscuous woman; prostitute.
19. a freight vessel that does not run regularly between fixed ports, but takes a cargo wherever shippers desire. Compare cargo liner.
20. a piece of iron affixed to the sole of a shoe.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME trampen to stamp; c. LG trampen; akin to Goth ana-trimpan to press hard upon. See traipse, trample
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Language Translation for : Tramp
Spanish: caminar pesadamente, *con pasos pesados, German: trampeln, Japanese: どしんどしんと歩く
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tramp     (trāmp)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   tramped, tramp·ing, tramps

v.   intr.
  1. To walk with a firm, heavy step; trudge.
    1. To travel on foot; hike.
    2. To wander about aimlessly.
v.   tr.
  1. To traverse on foot: tramp the fields.
  2. To tread down; trample: tramp down snow.
n.  
    1. A heavy footfall.
    2. The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.
    3. A prostitute.
    4. A person regarded as promiscuous.
  2. A walking trip; a hike.
  3. One who travels aimlessly about on foot, doing odd jobs or begging for a living; a vagrant.
    1. A prostitute.
    2. A person regarded as promiscuous.
  5. Nautical A tramp steamer.
  6. A metal plate attached to the sole of a shoe for protection, as when spading ground.

[Middle English trampen, to walk heavily, from Middle Low German.]
tramp'er n., tramp'ish adj., tramp'y adj.
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tramp  (v.)
1388, "walk heavily, stamp," from M.L.G. trampen "to stamp," from P.Gmc. *tramp- (cf. Dan. trampe, Swed. trampa "to tramp, stamp," Goth. ana-trimpan "to press upon"), probably from a variant of the P.Gmc. source of trap. The noun meaning "person who wanders about, vagabond" is first recorded 1664, from the verb. Sense of "steamship which takes cargo wherever it can be traded" (as opposed to one running a regular line) is attested from c.1880. The meaning "promiscuous woman" is from 1922.

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tramp

noun
1. a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" 
2. a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex [syn: swinger] 
3. a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) [syn: hiker] 
4. a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots" 
5. a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule [syn: tramp steamer] 
6. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time" [syn: hike] 

verb
1. travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado" 
2. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog] 
3. cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks" 
4. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" 

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Tramp

Tramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tramped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tramping.] [OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln, LG. & D. trappen, Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, Trape, Trip, v. i., Tread.]

1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. [Colloq.]

3. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. [Scot.] --Jamieson.

Tramp

Tramp\, v. i. To travel; to wander; to stroll.

Tramp

Tramp\, n. 1. A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. --Blackie.

2. A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond. --Halliwell.

3. The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching. --Sir W. Scott.

4. A tool for trimming hedges.

5. A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

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