tramper
IPA: trˈæmpɝ
noun
- One who tramps.
- (chiefly New Zealand) A recreational hiker.
- (manufacturing) A mechanism which pounds material into a more compact form for further processing; found for example in cotton gins and trash processors.
- (nautical) A ship, typically a bulk freighter, which does not travel on a fixed route; compare liner.
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Examples of "tramper" in Sentences
- Zug gets trapped between the barges and the tramper.
- They charge forward but only manage to buckle the tramper.
- The tramper Synge is looking for you, he said, to murder you.
- Top Hat and Sunshine then find Zug and the jammed tramper, on their way down.
- I will venture the assertion that the long-distance tramper - not even excepting Brother
- Also try to avoid looking like a tramp, which is quite different from looking like a tramper.
- These beds change their occupants, perhaps, every night; for a tramper seldom sleeps two consecutive nights in the same place.
- “Every one of those wild fellows,” said I to myself, “is worth a dozen of the poor mean-spirited book-tramper I have lately been discoursing with.”
- The rain still fell, and the ground beneath my feet was wet and miry; in short, it was a night in which even a tramper by profession would feel more comfortable in being housed than abroad.
- The day that the English - or Scots or Welsh - tramper can cross the moors of his native Britain without fear of impediment from game-preserving landowners or their hirelings, that day will the Devil be finally foiled and the spirit of Wild Edric be liberated for ever from its dungeon beneath the Stiperstones.
- Stowing away on a tramper bound for Leopoldville as was, he evaded the attentions of a colonial government ill disposed towards stray white missionaries, and attached himself to a remote community of friars dedicated to bringing the One True Faith to the two hundred-odd tribes of the Eastern Congo, an ambitious commitment at any time.
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