Tump

/tʌmp/ noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1
A mound or hillock. British, rare
"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."
2
A tumpline. uncommon

Verb

1
To form a mass of earth or a hillock around. transitive
"to tump teasel"
2
to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump") Southern-US, transitive
"Don't tump that bucket over!"
3
To fall over. Southern-US, intransitive
4
To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. US, dialectal
"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."

"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."

Etymology 1

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

Etymology 2

Possibly from tumpoke.

Etymology 3

Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).