Crossword clues for tamping
tamping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tamp \Tamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tamping.] [Cf. F. tamponner to plug or stop. See Tampion.]
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.
To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
Tamping \Tamp"ing\, n.
The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
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The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.
Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine. 2 The material used in tamping. vb. (present participle of tamp English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "tamping".
The man finished tamping, slipped his foot into a waiting boot, then lit the pipe with the anachronistic lighter in his left hand.
From assisting the carpenter in hewing the rafters, to advising the masons in laying a keystone, or with his own hands mixing the mortar and tamping the earth to give firm foundation to the cement floor, he was the directing spirit.
Finally, after tamping, away for a bit and puffing and relighting and tamping some more, he shoved the tobacco and matches and tamper back into a pocket and once again removed the watch, holding it up in front of himself as if checking the time.
More workers were following behind the posthole digger, righting the poles in the ground and tamping them solid.
Then, this time carefully tamping momentum back into the reservoirs where Lancelot could hold it stored, Michel dropped back onto the basalt surface.
Professor, tamping a great wad of chocolaty smelling tobacco into his pipe.
He held it cold in his mouth for the first thirty minutes of the session, busied himself through the next fifteen by filling it with tobacco and tamping it down, scrutinizing the bowl, tasting the stem, studying the bowl again, re tamping the tobacco, and so on, before he finally caved in and set it burning.
He was tamping down his fury that Ryland Miller and his team had escaped.
It chronicled her cock-tailed devolution from Delaware insecticide heiress elegantly tamping shreds of hard-boiled egg onto crustless toast triangles, loving the attention, then shamelessly hamming it up, becoming a haggard mal vivant gurgling fragments of sea shanties into the pipes beneath the kitchen sink.
Three Oaths Tsun struck a match to an ivory pipe he had been tamping down.
He did this well away from the tiny candle fire, tamping the powder down with his fingers and muttering to himself as he worked.
He did this well away from the tiny candle-fire, tamping the powder down with his fingers and muttering to himself as he worked.
So we have a veritable army working on the south wall, filling holes, tamping down earth, and relaying the massive red sandstone blocks.
He'd have greatly preferred the comfortable ritual of filling, lighting, and tamping his long-stemmed briar pipe, but his companion's respiratory system, with which he had considerable professional acquaintance, was severely irritated by tobacco smoke.
Rachlin said, unrolling one of the maps and tamping his thumb on a blue dot.