tump
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/tʌmp/
Definition of tump
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(British, rare)A mound or hillock.
“The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.”
“[…] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.”
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noun
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(British, rare)A mound or hillock.
“The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.”
“[…] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.”
- (uncommon)A tumpline.
verb
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(transitive)To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
“to tump teasel”
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(Southern-US, transitive)to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
“Don't tump that bucket over!”
- (Southern-US, intransitive)To fall over.
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(US, dialectal)To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
“To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.
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