trampers n.
the feet or shoes.
Collection of Songs II 63: Pray how d’ye like my nib, / My trowsers wide, my trampers rum. | ‘Jack in his Element’ in||
Swell’s Night Guide 74: Tickets to be had at the bar [...] and at chummy’s over the way [...] No gentleman can dance in queer crabs, or hob-nail’d trampers. | ||
Fife Herald 24 Oct. 3/1: It is not impossible that thinking he was about to turn into bed, he had managed to get off his trampers. | ||
‘Jack in his Element’ in Sea Songs of Old England 4: [as cit. a.1790]. |