- TO VAMP
- To pawn any thing. I'll vamp it, and tip you
the cole: I'll pawn it, and give you the money. Also to
refit, new dress, or rub up old hats, shoes or other wearing
apparel; likewise to put new feet to old boots. Applied
more particularly to a quack bookseller.
The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.