Associations to the word «Tromp»

Wiktionary

TROMP, verb. (chiefly US) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
TROMP, verb. To utterly defeat an opponent.
TROMP, noun. A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats