tump

• IPA^(key): /tʌmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

tump (plural tumps)

1. (British, rare) A mound or hillock.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     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.

   • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:

     […] 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.

• Wormelow Tump

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.

   to tump teasel

Possibly from tumpoke.

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")

   Don't tump that bucket over!

2. (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
3. (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
   • 1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance:

     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.

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

tump (plural tumps)

2. (uncommon) A tumpline.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)

1. butt, thump

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tump”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN