gamp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamp
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
Example Sentences
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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
In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."
From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus
The man with the gamp shuffled toward him.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred
One girl screamed, but the heroine from the old-established lodging-house boldly entered the cage, swinging her gamp.
From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward
A man in a slouch hat, carrying a gamp as untidy as himself, was walking before them down the middle of the road.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred
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