Word Meanings - TRAMPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.
Related words: (words related to TRAMPER)
- VAGRANTNESS
State of being vagrant; vagrancy. - VAGABONDAGE
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy. - TRAMP
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, 1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp - VAGABONDISM
Vagabondage. - VAGABONDIZE
To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness. - VAGRANTLY
In a vagrant manner. - TRAMPER
One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens. - DICKENS
The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak. - VAGRANT
waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander , but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. 1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading - TRAMPLER
One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper. - TRAMPLE
Etym: 1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6. 2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and - TRAMPOOSE
To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. Bartlett. - VAGABONDRY
Vagabondage. - STROLLER
One who strolls; a vagrant. - VAGABOND
1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond