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Lamping vs Tamping - What's the difference?

lamping | tamping |

As nouns the difference between lamping and tamping

is that lamping is a form of hunting, at night, in which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal while tamping is the act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.

As an adjective lamping

is (archaic) bright, flashing, resplendent.

As a verb tamping is

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lamping

English

Noun

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  • A form of hunting, at night, in which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Bright, flashing, resplendent.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
  • *:Most sacred fire, that burnest mightily / In liuing brests, ykindled first aboue, / Emongst th'eternall spheres and lamping sky [...]!

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    tamping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
  • The material used in tamping.