0 past simple and past participle of tamp --
1 to press something such as soil or tobacco down firmly --
Early dwellings were pit houses consisting of shallow pits with tamped earth floors and grass roofs designed to collect rainwater with the aid of storage jars.
Prepared floors were discovered in the earliest two levels of the cave, which were created by bringing in earth that was then consolidated by water and probably tamped.
This void was then filled with a much larger charge, which was also tamped, and then blown when required to create a crater as an obstacle.
Both parts of the building are made of yellowish limestone blocks and have a floor from a tamped mix of clay, lime and limestone.
One pound of explosive powder wrapped in paper was pushed into each hole, tamped down, punctured with a sharp needle, and a fuse added.
The ground that would form the house floor was moistened and then tamped with a fencepost to flatten and harden it.
The tube was then removed, and the hole tamped.
Even tamped down and without his easy smile, the actor conveys so much natural charm he's a sorry excuse for a moral void.
