(v): hold something in one's hands and move it
(v): intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
(v): get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
(n): a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
(n): an implement used in the practice of a vocation
The anaesthetist arrived, tampered with my heart and lungs, an dimplored me to breathe deeply while he listened.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984