Swamper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈswɒmpə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Swamper is a noun meaning (US) A person who lives in a swampy area.
Meaning
(US) A person who lives in a swampy area.
More Meanings
- (US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp.
- Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms.
- (Canada, US, slang) A truck driver's assistant; an assistant to a driver of horses, mules or bullocks.
- (Australia, slang) a person who travels by foot but has his belongings on a wagon.
- (US) A handyman or general employee in a liquor saloon; a cook's assistant.
Example Sentences
In the latter part of winter, I hired with a lumberer – camped out, and wrought in the forest as a swamper.
The old swamper shifted his broom and held it between his elbow and his side while he held out his hand for the can.
The Population Factor is a dissipator or swamper of the gain in per capita income and hence of the redressal of poverty to that degree.
To use such a brake on the front wagon, the driver stood up on the seat, letting the team follow the leaders, and threw his whole weight on the upper end of the bar, while the swamper braked the rear wagon.
Word Forms
- swampers
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