tramp
3
8.9
- noun
- /træmp/
- Specialized
:
buque tramp
- He was a chef on a tramp steamer.
- a tramp freighter
- a tramp steamer
- a tramp ship
Examples
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Tramp ship, bound for Hamburg, leaves the south quay six o'clock tonight.
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By the time he was twenty-seven, he had his papers as chief engineer and served on tramp freighters plying the waters between the islands of the South Pacific.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's all because my father worked in tramp shipping for 30 years.
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You know, tramp steamers and such.
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"Adventures on a tramp steamer."
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We're going on a very exclusive, a very exclusive... tramp steamer.
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It took two weeks on a tramp steamer from Russia.
Fiction book (1990) -
In his earlier years, he went from working as a purser on a tramp steamer to writing for Fortune magazine on a variety of non-financial topics.
Blog text (20) -
Yet O'Neill knew the working class intimately, having shipped out on tramp steamers and labored in mines in Honduras.
Academic text (1999) -
The tramp ship that was hired by the company will transport goods to various ports around the world.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large boat that carries people or goods across the sea
26
3.0
A large ship that carries goods between ports
1
8.6
A cargo ship that sails without a fixed route, carrying goods when available
1
3.9
A large ship that carries many shipping containers across the sea
Compounds
- Archaic
1
8.6
A cargo ship that sails without a fixed route, carrying goods when available
How Regular
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tramp for a cargo ship comes from the idea of wandering — a ship that 'tramps' from port to port, taking any cargo instead of following a fixed route. So a tramp ship is one that moves around freely and carries whatever load it can find.