gamp

Example Sentences

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It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

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

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

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

No; we gamp back in der Malibaan vere is old linden drees hunderd years old, eighd rows vun mile long, dere is vere we gamp, you gread fool!'

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon

Ach! it vos so pad I haf to get oudt right avay, und come pack to der gamp.

From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan