Tumpline Definition

tŭmplīn
noun
A broad strap passed across the forehead and over the shoulders for carrying a load on the back.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Tumpline

Noun

Singular:
tumpline
Plural:
tumplines

Origin of Tumpline

  • tump (alteration of mattump) (of Southern New England Algonquian origin) line

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Tump is a shortening of mattump, metump, from a Penobscot word.

    From Wiktionary

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