Definitions for tamps

tamps tamp

Spelling: [tamp]
IPA: /tæmp/

Tamps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in tamps (ampst).

Definitions for tamps

verb (used with object)

  1. to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes:
  2. (in blasting) to fill (a drilled hole) with earth or the like after the charge has been inserted.

Origin of tamps

First recorded in 1810-20; perhaps alteration of tampion

Examples for tamps

Sure, water filter makers put a bit of bactericide in their products to tamp down the infestation.

I could tamp a keg of powder so snugly into the hole of those skunks!

Colonel Fraser paused to tamp down the tobacco in his pipe with a fingertip.

To some degree, Washington colludes with China to tamp down the nuclear threat from North Korea.

There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing.

Care was taken to tamp the concrete so as to force the concrete stone into but not through the facing.

The amount of tamping is indicated by the fact that about 16 men out of 72 on each shift did nothing but tamp.

Smiley, meanwhile, tried to tamp down fears by comparing the Ebola outbreak to the SARS outbreak of 2003.

An executive of the National Auto Dealers Association claimed it would shut people out of the new car market and tamp down sales.

It is always a profitable labor to tamp the ground firmly about all the posts every spring.

Word Value for tamps
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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