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v. To pack down tightly by a succession of blows or taps.

v. To pack clay, sand, or dirt into (a drill hole) above an explosive.

v. to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

v. To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.

v. In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

v. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes.

In blasting for quarrying and mining purposes, to fill (the hole made by the drill or borer) with tamping, after the charge of powder or other explosive has been introduced.

To force in or down by frequent and somewhat light strokes: as, to tamp mud so as to make a floor.

v. press down tightly

n. a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

"No knock that I could see - but a variation on the Staub tamp, which is a four quadrant tamp."

tamped    tamping    tamps   

compress    compact    pack together   

tampon   

tamped    tamping    tamper   

ram   

Camp    Champ    amp    camp    champ    clamp    cramp    damp    decamp    encamp