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  • noun Plural form of tramper.

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Examples

  • A decision - dependent on weather conditions - was still being made about removing the trampers from the National Park.

    unknown title 2009

  • One or two little houses, with the notice, ‘Lodgings for Travellers’, hanging out, had tempted me; but I was afraid of spending the few pence I had, and was even more afraid of the vicious looks of the trampers I had met or overtaken.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • As the travellers had observed that day many indications of their drawing nearer and nearer to the race town, such as gipsy camps, carts laden with gambling booths and their appurtenances, itinerant showmen of various kinds, and beggars and trampers of every degree, all wending their way in the same direction, Mr

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • ‘Very sorry to leave you standing at the door, Sir,’ said the girl, lighting a lamp, and addressing Mr. Pickwick with a winning smile, ‘but you was quite strangers to me; and we have such a many trampers that only come to see what they can lay their hands on, that really —’

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • The trampers were worse than ever that day, and inspired me with a dread that is yet quite fresh in my mind.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • How the trampers might have behaved, had the young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harriet was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous, and impertinent in look, though not absolutely in word. —

    Emma 2004

  • The former, Father Geoghegan, lived about three miles out of Dunmore, near Toneroe; and his curate, Father Pat Connel, inhabited one of the small houses in the place, very little better in appearance than those which offered accommodation to travellers and trampers.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

  • How the trampers might have behaved, had the young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harriet was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous, and impertinent in look, though not absolutely in word.

    Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

  • As the travellers had observed many indications of their drawing nearer to the race town, such as gypsy camps, showmen of various kinds, and beggars and trampers of every degree, Mr. Codlin was fearful of finding the accommodation forestalled; but had the gratification of finding that his fears were without foundation, for the landlord was leaning against the door-post, looking lazily at the rain which had begun to descend heavily.

    The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • Our hard-worked garrison, almost worn down by watching and riding, and, at sight of these men, hoping always to be relieved, snarled bitterly at such apparently useless expenditure of leg-muscle, -- an article, truly, of which those lean, saffron-colored trampers had but too scanty supply for ordinary need.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

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