Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pack down tightly by a succession of blows or taps.
- transitive verb To pack clay, sand, or dirt into (a drill hole) above an explosive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In blasting for quarrying and mining purposes, to fill (the hole made by the drill or borer) with tamping, after the charge of powder or other explosive has been introduced.
- To force in or down by frequent and somewhat light strokes: as, to
tamp mud so as to make a floor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
- transitive verb To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb blasting to
plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected. - verb To
drive in orpack down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb press down tightly
- noun a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I noted that he tamped extremely well and used the piston tamp, that is, the arm straight up and bent at the elbow.
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No knock that I could see - but a variation on the Staub tamp, which is a four quadrant tamp.
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And, in fact, one of the reasons that the White House put out this speech yesterday, so that everyone could read it, is to kind of tamp down this sort of hysteria that led up to it.
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It's to kind of tamp down this sort of hysteria that led up to it.
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And basically, I think, started to kind of tamp down the wild expectations there are out there.
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So, yes, as far as I know, the two times and each time those calls seemed intended, at least the leaking of the news of those calls seemed intended, to kind of tamp down this notion of a continuing feud.
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So, yes, as far as I know, the two times, and, each time, those calls seemed intended -- at least, the leaking of the news of those calls seemed intended to kind of tamp down this notion of a continuing feud.
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So they would like to really keep things quiet and kind of tamp down this whole vice presidential talk as best he can.
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LIN: They can just contain these fire and kind of tamp them down a little bit then the fire - because the heat rising creates its own winds ...
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I think that, you know, this was a time to kind of tamp tings down and not let it get as explosive as it's gotten now.
yarb commented on the word tamp
...a moribund black rat
with one red bubble slung from each shut nostril.
Little bones crackle as she tamps it between
too-narrow cast iron bars of a drain in
the kerb.
- Peter Reading, Eavesdropped, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977
June 26, 2008
missmurgatroyd commented on the word tamp
tamp, to flatten, to batten, to squash down by repeated soft pats, slightly like stamp
July 16, 2008
bilby commented on the word tamp
Like me stuffing palooka into a cardboard box? I've always wanted a word for that.
July 16, 2008
madmouth commented on the word tamp
"Now for a bit of tamping down"
-Nigella
April 15, 2009
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word tamp
Tamp, a portmanteau of tap and stamp.
November 3, 2021