tump

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/tʌmp/

Definition of tump

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (uncommon)A tumpline.

verb

  1. (transitive)To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
    “to tump teasel”
  2. (Southern-US, transitive)to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
    “Don't tump that bucket over!”
  3. (Southern-US, intransitive)To fall over.
  4. (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.”

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Etymology

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

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