gamp
Example Sentences
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"Mark me, I'll find him, and when I do—" The sweep of her bulky gamp nearly knocked Bonypart off his platform.
From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson
You kicked yourself because you hadn't taken your mother's advice and brought a gamp.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill
Molly had put on her shabbiest hat and oldest jacket; her gloves had some holes in them; her umbrella was rolled up in such a thick, ungainly fashion that it looked like a gamp.
From Light O' the Morning by L. T. Meade
Some English "fellah" Has left his rotten gamp, and carried off My own Umbrella!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 by Various
“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”
From Will of the Mill by George Manville Fenn
