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tamp

  [tamp]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
2. (in blasting) to fill (a drilled hole) with earth or the like after the charge has been inserted.
Origin:
1810–20; perh. alter of tampion
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tamp   (tāmp)   
tr.v.   tamped, tamp·ing, tamps

  1. To pack down tightly by a succession of blows or taps.

  2. To pack clay, sand, or dirt into (a drill hole) above an explosive.


[Perhaps back-formation from tampin, variant of tampion.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
tamp

  1. n.
    a tampon. : You need a tamp, honey?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

tamp 
1819, "to fill (a hole containing an explosive) with dirt or clay before blasting," a workmen's word, perhaps a back-formation from tampion, that word being mistaken as a prp. (*tamping).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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