gamp

Example Sentences

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Well, I was going to a match at lord's, and it looked rather dull, so mother told me I'd better take a gamp.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

You kicked yourself because you hadn't taken your mother's advice and brought a gamp.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

From Dickens's famous character Mrs. Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit," who always carried a bulgy umbrella, we get the word gamp, rather a vulgar name for "umbrella."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

Under the Old Umbrella, Beneath the leaking gamp, Wrapped up in woolly phrases We battle with the damp.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

"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 Dyson, Edward