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say it: tamp
tamp is a noun and verb meaning "a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
press down tightly
“tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tamp come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.