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noun
hiking, especially on trails having huts at regular intervals for hikers to use overnight.
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Tramping
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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verb (used without object)
1.
to tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step.
2.
to tread heavily or trample (usually followed 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.
EXPANDto go about as a vagabond or tramp.
6.
COLLAPSEto 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.
EXPANDa walking excursion or expedition; hike.
17.
a person who travels on foot from place to place, especially 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.
COLLAPSEa piece of iron affixed to the sole of a shoe.
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Word Origin & History
tramp
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"
EXPANDis 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.
COLLAPSE
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