Dictionary entry

Vamp (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.