vamps

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of vamp
2. (plural, plural-only)Old or refooted stockings.

   “When I go out, I wear two pairs of golf stockings, wool stockings and bed-shoes and a pair of vamps inside my skin boots, a sweater under my fur-lined coat, a knitted helmet under Father's sealskin cap, and a pair of wool mittens with skin mittens over them.”

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of vamp