gamp

Example Sentences

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Under the Old Umbrella, Beneath the leaking gamp, Wrapped up in woolly phrases We battle with the damp.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Ah! take and hide me in some hollow lair, Red hills of Var! and ye umbrella-pines, Cover me like a gamp!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Well, I was going to a match at lord's, and it looked rather dull, so mother told me I'd better take a gamp.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

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