gamp

Example Sentences

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

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

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)

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

Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.

From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron