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Tump   Listen
verb
Tump  v. t.  (past & past part. tumped; pres. part. tumping)  
1.
To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.
2.
To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. (Local, U. S.)





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"Tump" Quotes from Famous Books



... women with huge burdens of firewood carried by means of a strap, after the fashion of the Canadian tump-line; and still others with m'wembe, bananas, yams, eggs, n'jugu nuts, and gourds of smoked milk. Evidently M'tela did not do ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al
... through the woods rather than pass between our occupied tent and the camp fire. But let us offer to show them pictures or to explain the workings of the camera or the typewriter and it is a different story, for then every man Jack drops his oar or tump-line and rushes to our side like ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... wonder if any living man has heard a greater variety than I? What a lot of them! I have heard them calling a jehad in the Sudan. Tumpi-tum-tump! tumpitum-tump! Makes a white man's hair stand up when he hears it in the night. I don't know what it is, but the sound drives the Oriental mad. And that reminds me—I've had them in mind all day—the ...
— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath
... familiarity; but he never would have identified his impression had he not observed on the breast of the soldier's uniform the Congressional military medal for bravery on the field of battle. Its glint furnished Peter the necessary clew. He remembered his mother's writing him something about Tump Pack going to France and getting "crowned" before the army. He had puzzled a long time over what she meant by "crowned" before he guessed her meaning. Now the medal aided Peter in reconstructing out of ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... said he, after a short pause, "did you see what a tundering tump on the head that boy got just now, and do you ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat


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