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tump.

A mound or hillock.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/tʌmp/
  1. A mound or hillock.

    UK · rare
Where this word comes from

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

verb/tʌmp/
  1. To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.

    transitive
    to tump teasel
Where this word comes from

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

verb/tʌmp/
  1. to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")

    Southern-US · transitive
    Don't tump that bucket over!
  2. To fall over.

    Southern-US · intransitive
  3. To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.

    US · dialectal
Where this word comes from

Possibly from tumpoke.

noun/tʌmp/
  1. A tumpline.

    uncommon
Where this word comes from

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

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