gamp

Example Sentences

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Ac ni wnaeth y dysgedig Mr. Edward Llwyd o’r Musæum, gamp yn y byd yn y perwyl yma, er ei fod yn gydnabyddus â holl geinciau prifiaith Prydain. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.

From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron

"You don't think I'd do a thing like that on purpose!" he said, and saw for the first time that the man with the gamp was Joses.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred

In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus