Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To walk with heavy footsteps. · To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain). · To hitchhike. · To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
The act of walking with heavy steps. · A homeless person; a vagabond. · A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. · Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp. Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.
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