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Definition of Trampling
1. Noun. The sound of heavy treading or stomping. "He heard the trample of many feet"
Definition of Trampling
1. Verb. (present participle of trample) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trampling
1. trample [v] - See also: trample
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trampling
Literary usage of Trampling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Southern Planter (1852)
"The third year gives but a meagre cover of natural grass or weeds, which is nearly
destroyed by the trampling, more than the grazing, of the lean cattle, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... provender and hay, or trampling down , .n'.s and growing crops while crossing
i гч-ld not belonging to the owner of the '•,.-t. Hence the two categories ..."
3. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1837)
"Circumstances enabled him to retain the empire, in defiance of this sentence ;
but the church had tasted the pleasure of trampling upon crowned heads, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"In centre, Death, armed with irresistible darts, rides the pale horse which,
unbridled, rushes onward, trampling ..."