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(chiefly US) An article of food consisting of coarse ground maize, or a porridge made from it.
1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 341,
I asked him to give me a little of his Broth, or Water they were boiling in; he took a dish, and gave me one spoonful of Samp, and bid me take as much of the Broth as I would.
The meal, coarse or fine, is then used for samps, mushes, or batters, and cakes, thick or thin, and of many varieties and degrees of wholesomeness.
1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, page 18:
'You kids have everything but you don't appreciate it. Mom must cook you beans and samps. Do you hear? Just beans and samps. That's all. Beans and samps.'