[f. TRAMPLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRAMPLE.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 499/1. Trampelynge, tritura.
1530. Palsgr., 282/2. Tramplynge with fete, marchage.
1577. Googe, trans. Heresbach’s Husb., I. 45. Your Meddowes … Let them be kept from … trampling of Cattel.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., II. 270. Bringing the Dung … (which cannot be done without much trampling on the Soil).
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, iii. After some … trampling up and down stairs, Dorothy appeared.
1838. Thirlwall, Greece, II. xv. 286. The universal silence was first broken by the trampling of the invaders, on the leaves with which the face of the woody mountain was thickly strewed.
1862. [Julia Ward Howe], ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic,’ in Atlantic Monthly, IX. Feb., 145.
| Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: | |
| He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. |
