Usually means: Pressing down firmly and evenly.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tamping: Merriam-Webster
  2. tamping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tamping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tamping, tamping: Wordnik
  5. tamping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tamping: Wiktionary
  7. tamping: Dictionary.com
  8. Tamping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Tamping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. tamping: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Tamping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tamping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. tamping: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tamping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tamping: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tamping: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tamping: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tamping)

adjective:  (Wales) Very angry; fuming.
noun:  The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, with earth, sand, or similar material in order to contain and direct explosive force meant to blast the rock or collapse the mine.
noun:  The material used in tamping.

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