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English Dictionary: vamping by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vamp \Vamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vamped} (?; 215); p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Vamping}.]
      To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to
      piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to
      patch; -- often followed by up.
  
               I had never much hopes of your vamped play. --Swift.
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