tramper
Britishnoun
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a person who tramps
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a person who walks long distances, often over rough terrain, for recreation
Example Sentences
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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
They went on a mile or two and realized in so doing that, however poor a trapper the enemy might be, he was a good tramper and knew the country.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
She was simply a tramper, with occasional fits of localization.
From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
The tramper, tired as he could be, at length approached, but the crowd had increased so enormously that the road was completely blocked.
From Across China on Foot by Edwin John Dingle
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 Matthew White
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