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Date "SWAMPER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1937. (references) |
"SWAMPER" is a common misspelling or typo for: scamper, swamped. |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Performs any combination of following duties in preparing logs for cutting into lumber and storing cut lumber in sawmill: Unloads logs from trucks or cars. Rolls logs onto sawmill deck. Examines logs for defects, such as embedded pieces of iron or stone, decayed wood from splits, and marks defects for removal by other workers. Rolls logs from deck onto log or carriage. Rides log carriage of head saw and adjusts position of logs on carriage to cut planks of required thickness. Sorts and guides planks emerging from saw onto roller tables or conveyors for trimming edges. Straightens lumber on moving conveyors. Straightens edges of rough lumber, using saw. Operates and maintains donkey engines. Sharpens and adjusts teeth of woodworking saws. Tends fires in donkey engine. May relieve designated workers engaged in preparing or cutting logs into lumber and be designated Sawmill-Relief Worker (saw. & plan.). (references) |
| Cuts trees, brush, and other growth, using chain saw, ax, brush-hook, and other handtools to clear land for construction, forestry, logging or agriculture activities, to remove infestation, or to control growth along utility, highway, or railroad right-of-way. May pile brush for burning or load onto trucks. May feed brush into shredding or chipping machine. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "SWAMPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | pastrues (abstergent, care-taker, laxative, orderly, purgative, purgatorial, purgatory, purificatory, purifier, rectifier, refiner, scavenger, swabber). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ελόβιος (marsh dwelling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | vasúti fékezõ (brakesman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ampersway разнорабочий (general labourer). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SWAMPER": swampers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SWAMPER" (pronounced swÄ"mper) |
| 3 | -m p er | bumper, camper, damper, distemper, dumper, hamper, jumper, lumper, mumper, pamper, scamper, shrimper, simper, Stamper, tamper, temper, Thumper, whimper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-p-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: pawers, remaps. | |
-2 letters: apers, apres, asper, mares, marse, maser, pares, parse, pawer, pears, perms, prams, prase, presa, ramps, rapes, reams, reaps, remap, resaw, sawer, sewar, smear, spare, spear, sperm, swamp, sware, swarm, swear, wames, wares, warms, warps, wears, wraps. | |
-3 letters: amps, aper, apes, apse, ares, arms, arse, awes, ears, eras, maes, maps, mare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-p-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: prewarms, swampers, swampier. | |
+2 letters: gapeworms, manpowers, tapeworms. | |
+3 letters: superwoman. | |
+4 letters: palmerworms, womanpowers. | |
+5 letters: newspaperman, newspapermen, watermanship. | |
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