Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tramp
Tramp
tramp
v. & n. --v. 1 intr. a walk heavily and firmly (tramping about upstairs). b go on foot, esp. a distance. 2 tr. a cross on foot, esp. wearily or reluctantly. b cover (a distance) in this way (tramped forty miles). 3 tr. (often foll. by down) tread on; trample; stamp on. 4 tr. Austral. colloq. dismiss from employment, sack. 5 intr. live as a tramp. --n. 1 an itinerant vagrant or beggar. 2 the sound of a person, or esp. people, walking, marching, etc., or of horses' hooves. 3 a journey on foot, esp. protracted. 4 a an iron plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging. b the part of a spade that it strikes. 5 esp. US sl. derog. a promiscuous woman. 6 = ocean tramp. Derivatives tramper n. trampish adj. Etymology: ME trampe f. Gmc
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I. verb Etymology: Middle English; akin to Middle Low German ~en to stamp Date: 14th century intransitive verb to walk, tread, or step especially heavily , 2. to travel about on foot ; hike, to journey as a ~, transitive verb to tread on forcibly and repeatedly, to travel or wander through or over on foot , ~er noun II. noun Date: 1790 1. vagrant 1a, a foot traveler, a woman of loose morals, a walking trip ; hike, the succession of sounds made by the beating of feet on a surface (as a road, pavement, or floor), an iron plate to protect the sole of a shoe, a ship not making regular trips but taking cargo when and where it offers and to any port, ~y adjective III. adjective Date: 1873 having no fixed abode, connection, or destination ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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