tramper

British  

/ ˈtræmpə /

noun

1. a person who tramps

2. a person who walks long distances, often over rough terrain, for recreation

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tramper

Mr. Booth, the driver from Dover, is a so-called tramper — he picks up and drops off construction materials across long distances.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

It suddenly dawned on me that in all of my boyhood experience as a hunter and tramper, I had never seen one edible beech nut in Connecticut.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association

It be enough," said he, "to raise the 'Old Adam' inside o' me to 'ave a tramper o' the roads a-snoring in my hay,—but I ain't a-going to be called names, into the bargain.

From The Money Moon A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery

And now once more the strange youth sat contemplating the boy, who seemed to be a tramper like himself, but who, in every other respect, was so vastly different.

From Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will by White, Matthew

It was summarised by the Edinburgh Review at the time as 'a hotch-potch of the jockey, tramper, philologist, and missionary.'

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King