gamp

Example Sentences

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Look here, how did you manage to get my gamp up yonder?”

From Will of the Mill by Fenn, George Manville

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

"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

Ach! it vos so pad I haf to get oudt right avay, und come pack to der gamp.

From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Douglas, Alan

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)