tramble

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See also: Tramble and tramblé

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tramble (third-person singular simple present trambles, present participle trambling, simple past and past participle trambled)

  1. (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

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