tamp

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
verb press down tightly

Probably a back-formation from tampin (misinterpreted as tamping), a variant of tampion.

Dinky-Dunk laughed as he tamped down his pipe. — The Prairie Mother, Arthur Stringer
The hole was charged and tamped, and the fuse inserted. — On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Generally the oil coming from the wells is conducted into large, carefully tamped excavations in the ground forming ponds or lakes. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson

tamper, tamping bar

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