tramble

See also: Tramble and tramblé

English

Verb

tramble (third-person singular simple present trambles, present participle trambling, simple past and past participle trambled)

1. (mining, transitive) To wash (tin ore, etc.) with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose.
   • 1670, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections:

     When this Buddle grows full , we take it up ; here distinguishing again the Forehead from the Middle and Tails ; which are Trambled over again : But the Forebead of this with the Forebead of the Launder , are Trambled in a second Buddle

References

• “tramble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lambert, lambert