TRAMPLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trampling mean? 

• TRAMPLING (noun)
  The noun TRAMPLING has 1 sense:

1. the sound of heavy treading or stomping

  Familiarity information: TRAMPLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAMPLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound of heavy treading or stomping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

trample; trampling

Context example:

he heard the trample of many feet

Hypernyms ("trampling" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

trample (tread or stomp heavily or roughly)

 Context examples 

I now heard a trampling over my head, and somebody calling through the hole with a loud voice, in the English tongue, “If there be any body below, let them speak.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Are we trampling the life out of the Kalahari?

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

But whilst they were getting all ready, they heard the trampling of a horse at a distance, which so frightened them that they pushed their prisoner neck and shoulders together into a sack, and swung him up by a cord to the tree, where they left him dangling, and ran away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I put down my muff on the stile, and went up to the tall steed; I endeavoured to catch the bridle, but it was a spirited thing, and would not let me come near its head; I made effort on effort, though in vain: meantime, I was mortally afraid of its trampling fore-feet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To this I added another petition, that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg, his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen, of trampling upon the crucifix: because I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes, without any intention of trading.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I got up in an instant; and orders being given to clear the way before me, and it being likewise a moonshine night, I made a shift to get to the palace without trampling on any of the people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)