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Tramp vs Runagate - What's the difference?

tramp | runagate |

As nouns the difference between tramp and runagate

is that tramp is (pejorative) a homeless person, a vagabond while runagate is a deserter, renegade or apostate.

As a verb tramp

is to walk with heavy footsteps.

tramp

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
  • *
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp .
  • (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
    • "I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp ."
    "Claudia is such a tramp ; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend."
  • Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
  • * 1888 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
    • I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp -ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
  • * 1919 , Charles Fort, :
    • Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
  • * 1924 , George Sutherland, :
    • Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.
  • * 1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :
    • “Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
  • * 1968 , John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois , page 75:
    • The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
  • * 2005 , Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring , Lonely Planet, page 734:
    • Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you?re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp' up ' Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.
  • * 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day , page 186:
    • The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.
  • , especially a very small one.

    • Synonyms

    * (homeless person) bum, hobo, vagabond ** See also * (disreputable woman) See also * (type of ship) see * (long walk) bushwalk, hike, ramble, trek

    Derived terms

    * tramp ant * tramp stamp

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To walk with heavy footsteps.
  • To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
    • We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.
  • To hitchhike
  • To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • To travel or wander through.
    • to tramp the country
  • (Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
    • (Jamieson)

    Derived terms

    * trample * tromp

    References

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    runagate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deserter, renegade or apostate.
  • * 1733 , , Mr Shelton, Mr Blunt (translators), The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha , Volume 2, page 152,
    • And being in this doubt the Runagate came to us, asking upon what we ?taid, for it was now high time to be going away, and all, his Moors were carele?s, and the greater number of them a?leep.
  • * 1850 , John Johnson (translator), A Collection of the Laws and Canons of the Church of England , Volume 1, New Edition, page 165,
    • Whatever brother, contrary to the prohibition of the venerable canons, receives a runagate' clerk or monk, without pacific letters, and when convened obstinately persists in it, let him pay what is appointed, viz., thirty sicles; fifteen to the bishop, fifteen to the abbot whose monk he received without consent of his own prior. Let him dismiss the ' runagate , or be excommunicate, and run the risk of paying more.
  • * 2005 , Cheryl A. Wall, Worrying The Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, And Literary Tradition , page 195,
    • The runagate or renegade slave travels the freedom train toward the mythic North and beyond ("first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah ").