tromp (third-person singular simple present tromps, present participle tromping, simple past and past participle tromped)
(chiefly, US, ambitransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
(informal) To utterly defeat an opponent.
• (tread heavily): march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
• (utterly defeat): clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip
tromp (plural tromps)
A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
Source: Wiktionary
Tromp, n. Etym: [F. trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Cf. Trump a trumpet.]
Definition: A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]
Tromp, Trompe, n. Etym: [See Trump a trumpet.]
Definition: A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
