Middle English Dictionary Entry
trampen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | trampen v. |
| Etymology | MLG |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To tread heavily, stamp.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1189/9 : Þe hors..haþ likynge..to drynke trowbly and þikke water, And if þe water is clere þe hors trampeþ and stureth it wiþ his foot to make it þikke.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Prov.6.13 : A man apostata, a man vnprofitable, he goith with a weiward mouth; he bekeneth with iȝen, he trampith [WB(1): tramplith] with the foot, he spekith with the fyngur.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)501 : Trampyn [Hrl 221: Trampelyn]: Tero.