English to English noun
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a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | | source: wordnet30 verb
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press down tightly | | Example: tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso
source: wordnet30
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In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected. | | source: webster1913
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