Noun

(en noun)

A person who begs.

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* 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:

Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .

A person suffering from extreme poverty.

* 1883 , :

I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.

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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.