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tamp

 (n): a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
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about 1 month ago bilby said:

Like me stuffing palooka into a cardboard box? I've always wanted a word for that.

about 1 month ago missmurgatroyd said:

tamp, to flatten, to batten, to squash down by repeated soft pats, slightly like stamp

2 months ago yarb said:

...a moribund black rat
with one red bubble slung from each shut nostril.
Little bones crackle as she tamps it between
too-narrow cast iron bars of a drain in
the kerb.

- Peter Reading, Eavesdropped, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977

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