[f. TRAMPLE v. + -ING2.] That tramples, in various senses of the verb.
1581. Sidney, Astr. & Stella, lxxxiv. My Muse … Tempers her words to trampling horses feete More oft then to a chamber-melodie.
1608. Middleton, Trick to Catch Old One, IV. v. A just judgment … upon usury, extortion, and trampling villany!
1697. Dryden, Æneid, III. 854. Trampling feet that shake the solid ground.
1839. Longf., Wreck of Hesperus, xvi. The sound of the trampling surf On the rocks.
