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单词 tumpline
释义

tumpline

See also: tump line

English

Using a tumpline

Alternative forms

  • tump line

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʌmplaɪn/

Noun

tumpline (plural tumplines)

  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.
    • 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 2, in The Winds of Chance:
      The speaker slipped his arms into his pack-harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.

Further reading

  • tumpline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • pilentum
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