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tamp

DEFINITIONS OF: tamp

1

v press down tightly

“tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso”
Synonyms:
pack, tamp down
Type of:
compact, compress, pack together
make more compact by or as if by pressing

n a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

Synonyms:
tamper, tamping bar
Types:
stemmer
a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
Type of:
tool
an implement used in the practice of a vocation
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