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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 159 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TRAMP , a vagrant, one who " tramps " or walks the roads begging from See also:

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house to house or ostensibly looking for See also:

WORK

work, but with no See also:

home and habitually sleeping out or moving on from the casual See also:

ward of one workhouse to that of another (see See also:

VAGRANCY (formed from " vagrant," wandering, unsettled; this word appears in Anglo-Fr. as wakerant and O.Fr. as wancrant, and is probably of Teut. origin, cf. M.L.G. welkern, to walk about; it is allied to Eng. " walk," and is not to be directly referred

VAGRANCY). The word is the shortened See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " tramper," one who tramps or walks with heavy tread. The See also:

TERM

term " tramp " is also used of a See also:

CARGO (Span. for " loading," from Lat. carries, car)

cargo steamer not See also:

RUNNING

running on a See also:

REGULAR

regular See also:

LINE

line but passing from See also:

PORT

port to port where See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight may be picked up.

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