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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRAMP, v.t. To tread.
TRAMP, v.i. To travel; to wander or stroll.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum]
2: a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex [syn: swinger, tramp]
3: a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) [syn: hiker, tramp, tramper]
4: a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots"
5: a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule [syn: tramp steamer, tramp]
6: a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time" [syn: hike, hiking, tramp] v
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, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp]
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" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English; akin to Middle Low German trampen to stamp Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to walk, tread, or step especially heavily <tramped loudly on the stairs> 2. a. to travel about on foot ; hike b. to journey as a tramp transitive verb 1. to tread on forcibly and repeatedly 2. to travel or wander through or over on foot <have tramped all the woods on their property> • tramper noun II. noun Date: 1790 1. a. vagrant 1a b. a foot traveler c. a woman of loose morals; specifically prostitute 2. a walking trip ; hike 3. the succession of sounds made by the beating of feet on a surface (as a road, pavement, or floor) 4. an iron plate to protect the sole of a shoe 5. a ship not making regular trips but taking cargo when and where it offers and to any port — called also tramp steamer • trampy adjective III. adjective Date: 1873 having no fixed abode, connection, or destination <a tramp dog>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. a walk heavily and firmly (tramping about upstairs). b go on foot, esp. a distance. 2 tr. a cross on foot, esp. wearily or reluctantly. b cover (a distance) in this way (tramped forty miles). 3 tr. (often foll. by down) tread on; trample; stamp on. 4 tr. Austral. colloq. dismiss from employment, sack. 5 intr. live as a tramp. --n. 1 an itinerant vagrant or beggar. 2 the sound of a person, or esp. people, walking, marching, etc., or of horses' hooves. 3 a journey on foot, esp. protracted. 4 a an iron plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging. b the part of a spade that it strikes. 5 esp. US sl. derog. a promiscuous woman. 6 = ocean tramp. Derivatives: tramper n. trampish adj. Etymology: ME trampe f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tramps, tramping, tramped) 1. A tramp is a person who has no home or job, and very little money. Tramps go from place to place, and get food or money by asking people or by doing casual work. N-COUNT 2. If you tramp somewhere, you walk there slowly and with regular, heavy steps, for a long time. They put on their coats and tramped through the falling snow... She spent all day yesterday tramping the streets, gathering evidence. = trudge VERB: V prep/adv, V n 3. The tramp of people is the sound of their heavy, regular walking. He heard the slow, heavy tramp of feet on the stairs. N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n 4. If someone refers to a woman as a tramp, they are insulting her, because they think that she is immoral in her sexual behaviour. (mainly AM OFFENSIVE) N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. (Colloq.) Travel (on foot), trudge, march (heavily), jog on, plod. II. n. 1. Journey (on foot), walk, march. 2. Heavy walk, heavy tread. 3. Stroller, tramper, vagabond, vagrant, loafer, landloper.

Moby Thesaurus

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