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tamp
[tamp] 
–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. |
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| tamp (tāmp) tr.v. tamped, tamp·ing, tamps
[Perhaps back-formation from tampin, variant of tampion.] |
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Tamp
Tamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tamping.] [Cf. F. tamponner to plug or stop. See Tampion.]1. In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected. 2. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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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