The Collaborative International 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.]
To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or sound of one who tramps, or walks heavily. 2 (context AU NZ uncountable English) walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport; hiking vb. (present participle of tramp English)
Wikipedia
Tramping may refer to:
- Tramping in New Zealand, a style of backpacking
- Czech tramping, a Czech outdoors pastime
- Trampin', an album by Patti Smith
- Flounder tramping, a method of catching flounder or other flat fish
- Tramping Lake, Saskatchewan
- Tramping Lake No. 380, Saskatchewan
Usage examples of "tramping".
Far down the Bowl, he could even hear the restless tramping of the penned herdbeasts.
It meant the four Ivets tramping down the animal track could barely see their feet.
Seven times they’d fallen back to using the TIP carbines for a sweep-scorch pattern, hacking at the jungle with blades of invisible energy, then tramping on through the smouldering vine roots and cloying ash.
After all, it was in his own interest not to have a liability tramping through the jungle with the scout team.
Goodness knows what you picked up tramping around the countryside for days on end.
People were tramping up and down the corridor, paying no attention to him.
A week after the Liberation began, they left the barn, tramping along the melted contour line which McPhee still insisted was the road.
How can we endure these scavengers in our midst with their varnished boots when our boys are tramping barefoot into battle?
After a long interval in which her breathing finally quieted and her mind steadied, Scarlett heard the sound of faint voices from up the road, the tramping of many feet coming from the north.
And he had no money and was tramping through a country where Confederates were hated.
Muffled and enveloped in the mist, the voice of Jan giving brief words of command could be distinctly heard, also the metallic click of skates and the tramping of heavily-booted feet upon the ground.
Already she was nerving herself for the supreme effort of pleading for a brave man's life when suddenly the tramping of heavy feet outside the hut, confused shouts and clang of arms, caused Stoutenburg to jump to his feet.
Overhead he heard the tramping of feet, his friends — Beresteyn, Heemskerk, van Does — were making ready for flight.
Her thoughts of pleading for the condemned man's life: then the tramping of feet, the cries of terror, her brother's appearance bringing the awful news of betrayal.
Digging and tramping about in the snow would darken it, no matter how carefully the looters tried to hide the signs of their presence.