Dictionary Entry
tamp
tamp is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
- 2transitive verb
To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
- 3noun
a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
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- 4verb
press down tightly
"tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso"
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