tramble
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]tramble (third-person singular simple present trambles, present participle trambling, simple past and past participle trambled)
- (mining, transitive) To wash (tin ore, etc.) with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
- 1670, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections:
- When this Buddle grows full , we take it up ; here distinguishing again the Forehead from the Middle and Tails ; which are Trambled over again : But the Forebead of this with the Forebead of the Launder , are Trambled in a second Buddle
References
[edit]- “tramble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.