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(noun) - (1) A trick. "To give one the slampant," to play a trick on; to circumvent or hoodwink one; 1500s-1600s.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1919
(2) Obscurity in the air, arising from smoke, fog or dust; South and West England.
--James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
(3) Slamp, a slap; a blow. East Worcester.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
(4) A slounge is one who is idle and has mischief in him.
--C. Clough Robinson's Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, 1876
January 14, 2018