or slampaine, slampambes, slampant, subs. (old).—A blow: see WIPE. TO CUT OF (or GIVE THE) SLAMPAMBES = to circumvent; to get the better of.

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  1573.  New Custom, ii. 3 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (REED), i. 230].

        I wyll CUT HIM OFF THE SLAMPAMBES, I hold him a crowne,
Wherever I meete him, in countrie or towne.

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  1577–87.  HOLINSHED, Description of Ireland, iii. That one rascal in such scornefull wise should GIUE THEM THE SLAMPAINE.

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  1582.  STANYHURST, Æneis [ARBER], 116. Shal hee scape thus? shal a stranger GEUE ME THE SLAMPAN?

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