tramp 
Sw.Xorw. tntiufiu =I)an. trumpr, train]), stamp, 
tread, tnnri|i|i<, :i loeo&dftryrerb, from a strung; 
verb SITU liiQ<Mh.aiiafrtai|NM t trMdnpofl (press 
upon); pel-Imps lilt, iikiu to trap, D. (i. ///./.' u. 
tread: see tni/i 1 , trap". ] I. Iran*. 1. Toitvad 
under foot ; trample. 
It U like unto the camamrlc ; the more ye tread It and 
trampe It, the swHrr it smt'llrth, the thicker it groweth, 
the better It spreddrth. 
/'. SUfltUm, Fortress of the Faith (I5fl. r >). (iMtham.) 
2. To trend (dot lies) in water, so as to cleanse 
or scour them. [Scotch.] 3. To travel over 
on foot: as, to tr<ii)> a country. 
II. iiitmit>t. 1. To walk, especially to walk 
with hi'iivy step; trend; march; go on foot. 
How often did tie . . . ilpMd to look over his shoulder, 
li-si he should behold some uncouth being trauijnny close 
hfhlnd him : Ircinij, Skctch-liook, p. 425. 
He liail tramiJfil about the fields of the vacant farm, 
trying helplessly to look after things which he did not un- 
derstand. Mm. <>lijil,uiii. Poor aentleinan, r. 
2. To go about as a vagrant or vagabond. 
tramp (tramp), H. [< tramp, r.] 1. The sound 
made by the feet in walking or marching. 
Then came the tramp of horse. Scott, Antiquary, .\\ vi 
The unmercifully lengthened tramp of my passing and 
returning footsteps. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Int., p. 38. 
2. An excursion or journey on foot; a walk. 
It was his delight . . . to organize woodland tramp*, and 
to start us on researches similar to his own. 
U. B. Stum, ( il. h.. n, p. 42!). 
We shook hands with them all, men, women, and chil- 
dren, resuming our tramp alxmt eleven o'clock. We still 
kept the main traveled road. The Century, XL. 015. 
3. A plate of iron worn by ditchers, etc., un- 
der the hollow of the foot, to save the shoe in 
pressing the spade into the earth. 4. An in- 
strument for trimming hedges. 5. An itiner- 
ant mechanic: same as tramper, 2. 6. An idle 
vagrant; a homeless vagabond. 
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M\ MMM-, to some eares not vniweet. 
Temper** h-r won!* t.. lni/i>ltnit horses' feete 
Mop "ft thru t.. ;> l.fdir. 
/'. *ii/nrii, Astrophi-1 ami stilln, Ixixlv. 
<'rrt:iin<- i.tlhl . . . -:I|!L< t'.l tl.rjl niiaiiaS 111 til. In 
illiins Kiirdfnx, /mi///i'ii;/ through them without :u.> ill* 
iTi'timi. llaMui/fi Voyagei, III. 320. 
Tts the presumptuous and proud man alone who dares 
to trample on thonu truths which the rest of the world 
reverence. Up. Atterlmry, Sermons, I. v. 
I trample on your offers and on you. 
Teimytmi, 1'rinceu, IT. 
Sudden and steady the music, as eight Iraofs trample and 
thunder. Swinburne, llesperia. 
trample (tram'pl), . [< tramplr, r.] A fre- 
quent heavy or rough tread ; a trampling. 
Under the despiteful control, the trample and spurn of 
all the other damned. Milton, Reformation In Eng , ii. 
The sound is drawing close, 
And speedier than the trample of speedy feet It goes. 
W. ilurru, Sigurd, IL 
trampler (tram'pler), . [< trample + -'.] 
1. One who tramples. 2f. A lawyer. 
Pity your trampler, sir, your poor solicitor. 
Hiddleton, World Tost at TcniiK 
The trampler is In hast, O cleere the way, 
Takes feus with both hands cause he cannot stay, 
No matter wheth'r the cause be right or wrong, 
So nee be payd for letting out his tongue. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). (Nam.) 
trampoose, r. i. Sec tniiiipvux. 
trampot (tram'pot), H. [< tram 1 + i>fit.] In 
Another class, that of importunate sturdy trampt. ha* 
been perambulating the country, composed generally of 
young, idle, and insolent able bodied men. unamenable to 
discipline, threatening and committing lawless net* of vio- 
lence tu the workhouses where they obtain nightly shel- 
ter. A. Uiri'ii, quoted in Ribton-Turner's Vagrants and 
(Vagrancy, p. 267. 
The "sturdy beggars "who infested England two or three 
centuries ago reappear in our midst under the name of 
trampt. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 280. 
7. A freight-vessel that does not run in any reg- 
ular line, but takes a cargo wherever the ship- 
pers desire : also used attributively, as in tramp 
steamer. Also called ocean tramp. [Slang.] 
tramper (tram'per), it. [< tramp + -!.] 1. 
One who tramps. 2. An itinerant mechanic; 
a workman in search of employment. 3. An 
idle vagrant; a homeless vagabond; a tramp; 
a gipsy. 
They had suddenly perceived ... a party of gipsies. 
. . . How the trampen might have behaved had the young 
ladies been more courageous must be doubtful ; but such 
an invitation for attack could not be resisted. 
Jam' Augten, Emma, xxxix. 
D'ye think his honour has naethtng else to do than to 
speak wi' ilka idle tramper that comes about the town? 
Scott, Heart of Mld-Lothlan, xxvi. 
tramping-drum (tram'ping-drum), n. In the 
manufacture of leather, a stuffing-wheel with 
hollow trunnions, through which warm air or 
steam is circulated into and out of the drum, 
while saturating in it a quantity of leather with 
oil. 
tram-plate (tram'plat), . A flat iron plate laid 
as a rail : the earliest form of rail for railways. 
trample (tram'pl), r. ; pret. and pp. traniplcil, 
ppr. trampling. JX ME. trampelcn, tramplen = 
L>. trampelen = LO. trarnpeln = MHO. tntmpeln, 
Gr. trampeln; a freq. of tramp.] I. traits. To 
beat or tread down by the tramping or stamp- 
ing of feet, or by frequent treading; prostrate 
or crush by treading under foot; tread upon or 
tread down, literally or figuratively. 
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they (rain- 
pit them under their feet. Mat. vii. 6. 
But that Humane and Diuine learning is now tramptfd 
vnder the barbarous foote of the Ottoman-Horse. 
Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 320. 
Was it not enough for thee to stoop so low for our sakes, 
but that t in .u shouldst be trampled on because thou didst 
It? StUliiujjleet, Sermons, I. vi. 
Squadrons of the Prince, trampling the flowers. 
'/VH/I.WJI, 1'imri-^. v. 
In I860 the present ruler of Austria and Dalmatia strove 
... to trample under foot the ancient rights of the free- 
men of the Bocche di Cattaro. 
E. A. Freeman. Venice, p. -jar}. 
II. in trims. To tread with repeated force 
and shock; stamp; hence, to tramp roughshod ; 
tread roughly or contemptuously. 
Tram pots. 
1. Arched trampot, the arch at c straddling a driving-shaft when 
bevel-gearing is used ; a. bridge-tree supporting the step *. 9. More 
common form of trampot, in which the movable step is adjustable to 
center by a quadrilateral arrangement of set-screws. 
milling, the support in which the foot of the 
spindle is stepped. 
trampous, trampoose (tram'pus, tram-p8s'), 
r. i. ; pret. and pp. trampoused, trampoosed, ppr. 
tramjiousing, tram panning. [Appar. < tramp + 
-ous, -oose, a merely capricious addition.] To 
tramp; walk or wander about. [Vulgar.] 
Some years ago I landed near to Dover, 
And seed strange sighU, trampoosiny England over. 
D. Humphrey!, The Yankee in England. (Bartlett.) 
tramp-pick (tramp'pik), u. A kind of lever of 
iron, about 4 feet long and 1 inch in breadth 
and thickness, tapering away at the lower end 
and having a small degree of curvature there, 
somewhat like the prong of a dung-fork, used 
for turning up very hard soils. It Is fitted with a 
rest, about 18 inches from the lower end, on which the 
workman presses with his foot. 
tramroad (tram'rod), H. [Formerly also (once) 
tlramroad (a form appar. due to the D. cognate); 
< framl, a rail, + road.] A road in which the 
track for the wheels is made of pieces of wood, 
flat stones, or plates of iron laid in line ; a tram- 
way. See tramway. 
tram-staff (tram'staf), . In milling, a straight- 
edge used to test the position of the spindle 
and millstone, and to test the surface of the 
stone. One form Is called the red-ita/, because it is 
rubbed with red chalk or other coloring matter, and leaves 
a red mark on all prominent points it encounters in pass- 
Ing over the surface of the stone. 
tramway (tram'wa), . [< train 1 , a rail, + 
tcay 1 .] The earliest form of railroad, it consist- 
ed at first of trams of wood or flat stones, at a latr period 
of wooden stringers covered with strap-Iron, and lastly of 
iron rails. The first tramways were simply rude horse* 
railroads for the transportation of heavy freight. The 
term is now applied to all kinds of street-railroads, whe- 
ther using engines, horses, a cable, or electricity. (Great 
Britain.] 
The smelting furnaces are the centre of activity, and to 
them tniiiinnii* and railways converge, bearing strings of 
trucks loaded with materials 
Kdinlmryh Ren., CXV1I. 211. 
tram-wheel (tram'hwel), . The form of light. 
flanged, metallic wheel 
usual on tram-cars, 
tranationt (tra-na'shon), 
n. [< L. tranare (tranx- 
nare), pp. tranatus, swim 
across, < trans, across, + 
ware, swim: see natant.] 
The act of passing over by 
swimming; trausnatation. 
trance 1 (trans), . [Early mod. E. also 
Inntnce, < OF. "transe, passage (found only in 
the deflected sense: see trance'*), = It. Iraiisito, 
passage, < L. transitus, a crossing over, transit : 
see transit. Cf. /cm/or'-'.] 1. A journeying or 
trankeh 
journey over :i rimntry: especially, n tedious 
journey. (Old :iinl prov. r.njr. ] 2. A passage, 
especially a passage in.-ide a hoti-e. [Scotch.] 
But mair he lo<,k'd, and dule saw he, 
On the door at the (ranee, 
Spots o' hl dear ladys bluld 
Shining like u l.on'f. 
n 'liil.l'i Ballads, III. 311). 
trance't (trans), r. i. [Early mod. E. also 
traunrr ; < traiicrl, H.] Totrainp: travel. 
Traimee the world over, yon shall never pone up so 
much gold as when you were In England. 
Fletcher (and another), Fair Maid of the Inn, T. 2. 
trance- (trans), n. [Early mod. E. also ti 
trattnre; < ME. trance, trtn^i. Innnn-r, < OK. 
tranne, extreme fear, dread, a trance or swoon 
(prob. also in orig. sense 'passage'), F. Iraiine, 
extreme fear, = 8p. trann, critical moment, 
crisis, hour of deatli, transfer of goods, = Pg. 
trancf, critical moment, crisis, hour of death, 
= It. trunxito, passage, decease, < I/, trtnixitiw, 
a passage, < transire, pass over : see transit, and 
cf. trance*. Some derive F. tranxr directly 
from OF. traniri, fallen in a swoon, amazed*, 
half-dead, pp. of tranitir, fall in a swoon, lit. go 
over.] 1 . A passing away or apart ; a state in 
which the soul seems to have passed out of the 
body into another state of being ; a state of in- 
sensibility to mundane things; a rapture ; an 
ecstasy. 
Now hast thou sit as In a trance, and seen 
To thy soul's joy, and honour of thy house, 
The trophies and the triumphs of tny men. 
Peete, Battle of Alcaiar, v. 
While they made ready, he fell Into a trance, and aaw 
heaven opened. Acts x. 10, 11. 
Some baue their supernatural! Irauncet or raulshments : 
some dwell amongst men, some by themselues apart. 
I'urchaf, Pilgrimage, p. 307. 
2. A state of perplexity or bewilderment; 
amaze. 
Both stood like old acquaintance In a trance, 
Met far from home, wondering each other's chance. 
Shale., Lucrece, 1. 1585. 
3. In met!., catalepsy; ecstasy; the hypnotic 
state. 
trance 2 (trans), r. t. ; pret. and pp. tranced, ppr. 
trancing. [< trance*, n. Cf. entrance?.] 1. 
To entrance ; plaee in or as in a trance or rajH 
ture. 
The trumpets sounded, 
And there 1 left him tranced. 
Shale., Lear, V. 8. 218. 
I trod as one tranced In some rapturous vision. 
Shelley, Kevolt of Islam, T. 17. 
2. To hold or bind with or as with a charm or 
spell ; overspread or shroud as with a spell ; 
charm ; enchant. 
A tranced summer-night. Krai*, Hyperion, I. 
trancedly (traii'sed-li), orfr. In a trance-like 
or spell-bound manner ; like one in a trance. 
Then stole I up, and trancedly 
Gazed on the Persian girl alone. 
Tennysmi, Arabian Nights. 
tranche (F. pron. tron-sha'), a. [F., pp. of 
trancltcr, cut: see trench.] In her., party per 
bend. 
tranectt, . See the quotation under traject. 
traneen (tra-nen'), . [< Ir. trainin, traitlinin, 
a little stalk of grass, the herb-bennet.] A 
grass, ('ynosuriiscrixtatu*. Britten and Holland. 
[Irish. ] Kot worth a traneen, not worth a rush. 
trangamt, trangamet, . Same as trmu/ram. 
trangle (trang'gl), H. [Origin obscure.] In 
her., one of the diminutives of the fesse, by 
some writers considered as a bar, by others as 
a closet or barrulet. 
trangramt (trang'gram), n. [Also tranijam. 
trangame, truiikiint ; appar. an arbitrary var. of 
tangram or perhaps of anagram. J Something 
trumpery, unusual, or of no value ; a gimcrack. 
But go, thou Trangame, and carry back those Tratujamet, 
which thou hast stol'n or purloln'd. 
Wychertey, Plain Dealer, III. 1. 
What a devil 's the meaning of all these tranyramt and 
gimcracks, gentlemen? Arlmihin-i, Hist. John Bull, iii. 6. 
"But, hey-day, what, have you taken the chain and 
medal off from my bonnet '. " " And meet time It was, 
when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he U, began to 
inquire what popish tr<in<ni>n you were wearing." 
Scott, A hi *, six. 
trank (trangk), H. [Origin obscure.] In gtore- 
malcing, an oblong piece taken from the skin, 
from which the shape of the glove is cut by a 
knife in a press, h. H. Knight. 
tranka (trang'kU), . A long cylindrical box 
balanced and juggled with by the feet of an 
acrobat. 
trankeh (trang'ke), n. [Pers.] A large boat of 
a type used in the Persian Gulf. 
