gamp

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The one I've got is an old gamp with a stout indiarubber ring to it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various

From Dickens's famous character Mrs. Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit," who always carried a bulgy umbrella, we get the word gamp, rather a vulgar name for "umbrella."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

She went off, still flourishing her sturdy gamp, and reiterating her determination to have the law on the infamous Missing Link.

From The Missing Link by Dyson, Edward

The man with the gamp shuffled toward him.

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

“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville