gamp

Example Sentences

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In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus

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

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

“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

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