tumpline

See also: tump line

English

WOTD – 1 May 2013, 1 May 2014, 1 May 2015

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Etymology

From tump +‎ line, "tump" is an apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtʌmplaɪn/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

tumpline (plural tumplines)

  1. A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just above the forehead.
    • 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 2, in The Winds of Chance:
      The speaker slipped his arms into his pack-harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.

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