gamp

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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 Ollivant, Alfred

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