v. Obs. [Origin uncertain. Cf. Sw. dial. tramla, trumla to fall (Rietz).]
1. intr. To roll over and over; to tumble, fall headlong. rare–1.
1609. Bible (Douay), Job xxx. 14. They haue broken violently vpon me, and are come trambling downe to my miseries [Vulg. ad meas miserias devoluti sunt].
2. trans. To wash (tin-ore) by agitating it in a trough of water (BUDDLE sb.2) with a special shovel called a trambling shovel; to buddle; = TOZE v.2
1671. Phil. Trans., VI. 2109. A man … with a Trambling shovel in his hand to cast up the Ore. Ibid., 2110. When this Buddle grows full, we take it up; here distinguishing again the Fore-head from the Middle and Tails; which are trambled over again.
1710. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., II. Trambling, is the Term used in Dressing of Tin-ore, for washing it very clean in Water … with … a Trambling-shovel, and in a Frame of Boards, which they call a Buddle.
