tamp

Meanings

Noun

a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

Verb

press down tightly
- "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso"
To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes
To reduce the intensity of.

Origin / Etymology

Probably a back-formation from tampin (misinterpreted as tamping), a variant of tampion.

Synonyms

pack, tamp down, tamper, tamping bar

Scrabble Score: 8

tamp is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tamp is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tamp is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

tamp is a valid Words With Friends word