Antonyms for tamp


Grammar : Verb
Spell : tamp
Phonetic Transcription : tæmp


Definition of tamp

Origin :
  • 1819, "to fill (a hole containing an explosive) with dirt or clay before blasting," a workmen's word, perhaps a back-formation from tampion, that word being mistaken as a present participle (*tamping).
  • As in jam : verb squeeze in; compress
  • As in pack : verb fill, compact
  • As in ram : verb bang into; pack forcibly
  • As in cram : verb fill to overflowing; compress
Example sentences :
  • I could tamp a keg of powder so snugly into the hole of those skunks!
  • Extract from : « The Face of the Fields » by Dallas Lore Sharp
  • Colonel Fraser paused to tamp down the tobacco in his pipe with a fingertip.
  • Extract from : « Dave Dawson with the R.A.F » by R. Sidney Bowen
  • It is always a profitable labor to tamp the ground firmly about all the posts every spring.
  • Extract from : « American Grape Training » by Liberty Hyde (L.H.) Bailey
  • The amount of tamping is indicated by the fact that about 16 men out of 72 on each shift did nothing but tamp.
  • Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
  • Care was taken to tamp the concrete so as to force the concrete stone into but not through the facing.
  • Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
  • No scaffolding whatever was used and only one man was required overhead to dump the buckets and tamp the concrete into place.
  • Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
  • Pour in the cement quite wet, and tamp it down occasionally until full.
  • Extract from : « Carpentry and Woodwork » by Edwin W. Foster
  • Then add sufficient of above solution to hold it together without being plastic, as that would be too wet to tamp.
  • Extract from : « Electric Gas Lighting » by Norman H. Schneider
  • Machines designed to tamp the concrete and strike it off to the required cross section are also employed for finishing.
  • Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
  • Tampion, tamp′i-un, n. the stopper used to close the mouth of a cannon or mortar.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) » by Various

Synonyms for tamp

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