Crossword clues for tramper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tramper \Tramp"er\, n.
One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who tramps. 2 (context chiefly New Zealand English) A recreational hiker. 3 (context industry English) A mechanism which pounds material into a more compact form for further processing; found for example in cotton gins and trash processors.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A Tramper is UK Trucker slang for the driver or vehicle for long distance deliveries that may take several days. The vehicles themselves are large articulated lorries designed to allow the driver to sleep in overnight.
Not to be confused with a Tramp or Tramping in the sense of Hiking.
Usage examples of "tramper".
You lounge around my ship like overpriced trampers for a couple of days, then flit around for two hours while I try to dodge bulk freighters and get this thing into a docking station designed for scavenger pickers.
When I looked down at the trampers whom we passed, and saw that well-remembered style of face turned up, I felt as if the tinker's blackened hand were in the bosom of my shirt again.
As the travellers had observed that day many indications of their drawing nearer and nearer to the race town, such as gipsy camps, carts laden with gambling booths and their appurtenances, itinerant showmen of various kinds, and beggars and trampers of every degree, all wending their way in the same direction, Mr.
Once again Cathy felt aware of the family atmosphere the Trampers created even in their absence.