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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.
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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).
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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