Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tramping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.]
1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
[Colloq.]
3. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
[Scot.] --Jamieson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tramping
adj : walking with a heavy tread; "little boys playing in the dust
heedless of the trampling feet everywhere about them"
[syn: {trampling}]
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