samp

How to use samp in a sentence

• This was the samp-mill, where their corn was pounded into meal.

  The Puritan Twins | Lucy Fitch Perkins

• The Indian samp-wallahs do not use any infusion or unguent to stupefy and disarm their snakes, as do those of Ethiopia.

  The Romance of Natural History, Second Series | Philip Henry Gosse

• Then I put some of the hot water to the samp, and drank it up, and my spirit came again.

  Captivity and Restoration | Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

• These hand-mills are sometimes still found in use as "samp-mills."

  Customs and Fashions in Old New England | Alice Morse Earle

• samp is the corn skinned, as we shell oats, or make pearl barley; it is then boiled with pork or other meat, as we boil peas.

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction | Various