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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1689
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Tramp, v.1 Also: trampe, trampt. [ME and e.m.E. tramp(en (Wyclif), trampe (1565), LG trampen.]
1. intr. To step or walk on (wpon) a pavement, etc.; to step into filth; to tread on a person or animal so as to produce harm. Also proverb.c1420 Wynt. v 3704.
How may it cum in thine intent To stampe [E.2 tramp, W. tred] on halowyd pathement Wyth thai fete a1500 Henr. Orph. 105.
Scho trampit on a serpent wennomus c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 493 (M).
Him before me with my fute fast on I tramp 1531 Bell. Boece II 89.
He inhibite to paint or graif the signe of the croce on ony pament of kirkis, that the pepill suld nocht trampe on the samin 1533 Boece 309.
Is haldin gif wemen trampe apoun the graif of Guanor, thai sal be barrane a1538 Abell 30a.
The king of Pers … quhen he lap apone his hors he trampit on Walaris bak to leip on 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 286.
Ladie! the blake oxe hes neuer trampit yit vpoun your foute! a1599 Rollock Wks. I 360.
O sinful man, quha is maid of the eirth, and trampis on the belly of the eirth 1605-6 Welsh Forty-eight Serm. 152.
And thou shalt tramp on the golden streets of that new Jerusalem 1638 Henderson Serm. 222.
Like the threshold of a door, where ilk ane tramps 1662 Criminal Trials III 618.
If any of them sould twitch or tramp wpon any of it … it sould strik thaim with byllis 1668 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II 484.
They wounded the said William … and trampted upon the said Alexander Gordonproverb. a1598 Ferg. Prov. MS No. 1254.
Tramp on a worme & sho wil steir hir taill a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1638.
The mair in merdis ye tramp into the fouler will com out your schone
2. tr. Const. doun, out, under (one's) fute (feit). a. To crush, suppress, put down; to harm; to despoil. Chiefly fig. and in fig. context. b. To destroy (crops, etc.) by trampling. c. To thresh (corn).a. 1460 Hay Alex. 1378.
Many proud man was trampit vnder feit 1533 Gau 104/18.
The suine trampis the precious peirlis onder thair feit 1533 Gau 105/31.
Sayand to the serpent the seid of voman sal tramp dwne thy heid 1540 Lynd. Sat. 1162.
Thame quhilk dois tramp doun Thyne hevinly word c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4039.
The strandis of blude ran throuch the stretis Of deid folk trampit vnder fetis c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2595.
Behald quhow ȝour awin brether … In Ducheland, Ingland [etc.] … Ar trampit doun 1562-3 Winȝet I 66/20.
All contentioun and discord being trampit doun 1562-3 Winȝet II 26/22.
Vaniteis abolissit, annullit, and trampit vnder fute 1571 Bann. Memor. 148.
That maner of shift shall not trampe the querrell of armes vnderfute 1596 Dalr. I 96/23.
The mair the baldnes of sum, be in our loifing, the mair may thair baldnes be tramped out malitiouslie 1598–9 Reg. Privy C. V 539.
[The said James] … maist lichtifullie … trampit under his feit his Majesteis letteris of suspensioun a1599 Rollock Wks. I 401.
Thair is na lord, bot the Lord Jesus, quha will tramp down all the lordis in the eirth, and tred upon thair craigis c1650 Spalding II 158.
Ane Parliament wes indictit, quhairintill the King, in all his designes, both of kirk and pollicie, wes trampit dounb. 1558 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 145.
That the wylde beistis tramp not doun the tender branchis 1563 Boyd Fam. P. No. 48 (15 Feb.).
[Thay] distroyt and trampit doun his haill cornis onn the ground of his landis 1581 (c1650) Dundee B. Laws 40.
It is statut … that the cornes … be trampit doun and the sam [sc. ground] keepit in lay 1662 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XXII 224.
They trampit down Thos. White's riec. 1551 Hamilton Catechism 80.
Thow sal nocht bind up the mouth of the ox that trampis out the corne quhilk was thair thresching
3. To tread on (something). b. To damage or destroy (crops) by trampling. c. To produce (wine) by treading grapes. d. To clean (clothes) by treading them. Also absol.1533 Boece 311.
Sua that honorable signe suld nocht irreuerentlie be trampit nor filitb. 1533 Boece 616b.
Quhen … be confluence of pepill the cornis … war fulȝeit and trampit 1656 Peebles B. Rec. II 34.
Nolt … found eating or tramping their neighbours corne [etc.]c. 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Georgics ii 7.
Nudataque musto tinge novo mecum dereptis crura coturnis, come and tramp the wyne with med. 1620 Cardross Ch. 94.
That no woman sall work or tramp clothes … within sight of the High Streetabsol. 1689 Rec. Old Aberd. I 148.
The provest and baillies … dischairges all persones to tramp and wash in tubs upon any pairt of the high streit
