gamp
Example Sentences
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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 Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron Headley
“Likely I’m going to ask you after serving my gamp like that!”
From Will of the Mill by George Manville Fenn
A man in a slouch hat, carrying a gamp as untidy as himself, was walking before them down the middle of the road.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
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 Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.
From In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
