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tumpline.

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.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtʌmplaɪn/
  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.

Where this word comes from

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

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