Wordie: Tramp

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(n): a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

(n): a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

(n): a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

(n): a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

(n): a person who travels by foot

(n): a heavy footfall

(n): the sound of a step of someone walking

(n): a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

(n): a ship powered by one or more steam engines

(n): a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

(n): the act of walking somewhere

(v): travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

(v): walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise

(v): walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

(v): use one's feet to advance; advance by steps

(v): cross on foot

(v): travel across or pass over

(v): move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

(v): change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

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27 days ago chained_bear said:

"Even if Memphis was equipped and ready to ship cotton north, none was arriving from the south. As jobs grew scarce on farms and in small towns, poor families flocked to nearby cities, and the newly termed tramps moved freely along the railroads."
—Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague (New York: Berkeley Books, 2006), 19

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