Associations to the word «Tromp»
Adjective
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.