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To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6.

One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.

To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

less with; without. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.

he teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

A heavy footstep; a tramp.

To tread or trample under foot. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu -- Con`cul*ca"tion (, n. [Obs.]

Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

To tread under foot; to trample. King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless. Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.

To tread down; to trample upon. [Obs.] In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils. Chaucer.

To hike one's self; specif., to go with exertion or effort; to tramp; to march laboriously. [Dial. or Colloq.] "If you persist in heaving and hiking like this." Kipling.

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

To be on a tramp; to foot. [Slang, U.S.] To hoof it, to foot it.

To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.] Shak.