Tamp

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  • transitive verb. To pack down tightly by a succession of blows or taps.
  • transitive verb. To pack clay, sand, or dirt into (a drill hole) above an explosive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In blasting for quarrying and mining purposes, to fill (the hole made by the drill or borer) with tamping, after the charge of powder or other explosive has been introduced.
  • To force in or down by frequent and somewhat light strokes: as, to tamp mud so as to make a floor.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
  • transitive verb. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
  • verb. To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. press down tightly
  • noun. a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
    • Word Usage
    "No knock that I could see - but a variation on the Staub tamp, which is a four quadrant tamp."
    cross-reference
    tampon  
    Form
    tamped  tamper  tamping  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    compact  compress  pack together  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Camp  Champ  amp  camp  champ  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    assault  bear  bear upon  boost  buck  
    verb-form
    tamped  tamping  tamps  
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