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An idle vagrant; a tramp. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart. Chaucer.

To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.]

d yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

To make soft or muddy by trampling Tennyson.

A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang]

or by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence. Their bridles they would champ, And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp. Spenser.

of the other, who is coming up on foot. Fielding. -- To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail. -- To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at ancho…

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.]

A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

e buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. Shak.

To follow with violence and trampling. [R.] The Puritan (1607).

To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. Shak. To tread on or upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth. -- To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that…

g, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12.

To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [R.] Drayton.

One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. [Colloq.] Wright.

ing to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. South. [He] throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel. Milton. A wheel within a wheel, or Wheels within wheels, a complication of circumstances, motives, et…