gamp

Example Sentences

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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 Meade, L. T.

Look here, how did you manage to get my gamp up yonder?”

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

The one I've got is an old gamp with a stout indiarubber ring to it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various

"You don't think I'd do a thing like that on purpose!" he said, and saw for the first time that the man with the gamp was Joses.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred

Ah! take and hide me in some hollow lair, Red hills of Var! and ye umbrella-pines, Cover me like a gamp!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir