▪ I. ˈtrampling, vbl. n.
[f. trample v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb trample.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 499/1 Trampelynge, tritura. 1530 Palsgr. 282/2 Tramplynge with fete, marchage. 1577 Googe tr. Heresbach's Husb. i. 45 Your Meddowes..Let them be kept from..trampling of Cattel. 1693 Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 170 Bringing the Dung..(which cannot be done without much trampling on the Soil). 1828 Scott F.M. Perth iii, After some..trampling up and down stairs, Dorothy appeared. 1838 Thirlwall Greece II. xv. 286 The universal silence was first broken by the trampling of the invaders, on the leaves with which the face of the woody mountain was thickly strewed. |
▪ II. ˈtrampling, ppl. a.
[f. trample v. + -ing2.]
That tramples, in various senses of the verb.
| 1581 Sidney Astr. & Stella lxxxiv, My Muse..Tempers her words to trampling horses feete More oft then to a chamber-melodie. 1608 Middleton Trick to Catch Old One iv. v, A just judgment..upon usury, extortion, and trampling villany! 1697 Dryden æneid iii. 854 Trampling feet that shake the solid ground. 1839 Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus xvi, The sound of the trampling surf On the rocks. |