English to English
tamp
(t/&/mp
)
noun (n)
- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
verb (v)
- In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.(verb)source: webster1913
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