15. tramp a person who travels about on foot, esp. a vagabond living on occasional jobs or gifts of money or food.
16. tramp a sexually promiscuous woman.
17. tramp a freightvessel that does not run regularly between fixed ports, but takes a cargo wherever shippers desire.
18. tramp a piece of iron affixed to the sole of a shoe.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME: to stamp, prob. < MLG trampen to tramp, tread; akin to Go anatrimpan to crowd)
Definition of 'tramp'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)tramp, hobo, bum a disreputable vagrant "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
2. (noun)swinger, tramp a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
3. (noun)hiker, tramp, tramper a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
4. (noun)tramp a heavy footfall "the tramp of military boots"
5. (noun)tramp steamer, tramp a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regularschedule
6. (verb)hike, hiking, tramp a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure "she enjoys a hike in her spare time"
7. (verb)tramp travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"
8. (verb)slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
9. (verb)tramp cross on foot "We had to tramp the creeks"
10. (verb)roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
Definition of 'tramp'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)tramp a foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp
2. (noun)tramp a foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond
3. (noun)tramp the sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching