Word Meanings - LOITERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
Related words: (words related to LOITERER)
- VAGRANTNESS
State of being vagrant; vagrancy. - TRAMPLE
Etym: 1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6. 2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and - IDLER
One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch. Totten. (more info) 1. One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard. - VAGRANTLY
In a vagrant manner. - TRAMPER
One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens. - TRAMP
Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, 1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp - TRAMPLER
One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper. - VAGRANT
waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander , but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. 1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading - TRAMPOOSE
To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. Bartlett. - BRIDLER
One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.