[f. TRAMPLE v.] An act or the action of trampling.
1604. Meeting of Gallants at Ordinarie (Percy Soc.), 13. They ran … in the middle of the street, with such a violent Trample as if the Diuell had bene Coachman.
1641. Milton, Reform., II. ad fin. Under the despightfull controule, the trample and spurne of all the other Damned.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 93. Destruction’s trample treads them down.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics, XIII. iii. (1860), II. 273. The earth shakes with the trample of a myriad hoofs.
1902. Mrs. Barnes Grundy, Thames Camp, 143. The elephant is preparing for his final trample [on a man].
