English Dictionary

swamper

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈswɒmpə/

名詞

アメリカ英語 カナダ英語 俗語 オーストラリア英語

(US) A person who lives in a swampy area. / (US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp. / Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms.

日本語の意味

沼地に住む人 / 森林や沼地で材木業者のために道を切り開く作業員 / 何かに圧倒されるものや、圧倒する存在（比喩的表現）

The old swamper guided us through the knee-deep marshes with a knowing grin.

年老いた沼地の住人が、知ったような笑みを浮かべながら膝まである湿地を私たちに案内してくれた。

意味（1）

(US) A person who lives in a swampy area.

意味（2）

(US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp.

In the latter part of winter, I hired with a lumberer – camped out, and wrought in the forest as a swamper.

意味（3）

Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms.

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.

意味（4）

(Canada, US, slang) A truck driver's assistant; an assistant to a driver of horses, mules or bullocks.

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.

意味（5）

(Australia, slang) a person who travels by foot but has his belongings on a wagon.

On the road to the Diorite King, which is about 40 miles from Leonora, there was nothing much to see except a good many swampers. A “swamper” is a man tramping without his swag, which he entrusts to a teamster to bring on his waggon.

意味（6）

(US) A handyman or general employee in a liquor saloon; a cook's assistant.

The old swamper shifted his broom and held it between his elbow and his side while he held out his hand for the can.

swampers （ plural ）