Tamp (Noun)
Meaning
A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- He carefully placed the tamp on top of the tobacco to compress it firmly into his pipe.
- The worker used a long-handled tamp to pack the explosive material into the drill hole.
- To prepare her snuff box, she produced a small silver tamp from her pocket.
- With a firm press, he applied the tamp to compact the soil around the newly planted tree.
- She extracted her grandfather's ornate tamp from the box of antique smoking accessories.