noun. A device, in a cotton-baling press, for compacting cotton to the desired density for baling.

noun. One who tramps.

noun. An itinerant mechanic; a workman in search of employment.

noun. An idle vagrant; a homeless vagabond; a tramp; a gipsy.

noun. One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.

noun. One who tramps.

noun. A recreational hiker.

noun. A mechanism which pounds material into a more compact form for further processing; found for example in cotton gins and trash processors.

noun. A ship, typically a bulk freighter, which does not travel on a fixed route; compare liner.

noun. someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground

noun. a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

"The day that the English - or Scots or Welsh - tramper can cross the moors of his native Britain without fear of impediment from game-preserving landowners or their hirelings, that day will the Devil be finally foiled and the spirit of Wild Edric be liberated for ever from its dungeon beneath the Stiperstones."

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