south-w. dial. [f. VAMP sb.1 + -LET.] A gaiter. Usu. in pl.
1842. Akerman, Wilts. Gloss., Vamplets, rude gaiters to defend the legs from wet.
1863. Wise, New Forest, 162. His legs are still cased … with gaiters, known as ‘vamplets,’ or ‘strogs.’
1866. Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xlix. She wore a pair of poor Clayton’s vamplets. Ibid. (1875), Alice Lorraine, II. xvi. 208. Instead of white stockings, he displayed gold-buttoned vamplets of orange velvet.
1883–. in dial. glossaries (Berks., Hants, Wilts.).
