tramp

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of walking with heavy steps.

   “My dear sirs, did you actually imagine that one could not follow every clumsy move you made, with Joolby's low comedy tramp and the other two stealing in like a couple of hired assassins in a penny gaff melodrama?”

2. isim A homeless person; a vagabond.

   “[S]he had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.”

3. isim A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.

   “I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp.”

4. isim Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.

   “Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.”

5. isim A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.

   “I got in with the American Fur Company and set out for another tramp to trade with the Indians on the North and South Platte Rivers.”

6. isim Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.

   “Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal.”

7. isim A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
8. isim Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
9. fiil To walk with heavy footsteps.
10. fiil To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

    “We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.”

11. fiil To hitchhike.
12. fiil To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
13. fiil To travel or wander through.

    “to tramp the country”

14. fiil To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

    “Soak them [blankets, etc.], add to the water in which the linens were washed some soap, and also some of the preparation to produce a strong lather; rub or tramp them, then rinse and dry.”

15. fiil To scram; begone.

    “She hesitated, “be off—tramp, march,” he exclaimed, in a tone which the poor girl dared not disobey. She left the room, and Edward followed her to the door.”

16. fiil To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
17. isim Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.