Tump
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /tʌmp/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tump is a noun meaning (British, rare) A mound or hillock.
Meaning
(British, rare) A mound or hillock.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
- (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
- (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
- (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
- (uncommon) A tumpline.
Example Sentences
to tump teasel
Don't tump that bucket over!
The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.
[…] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.
Word Forms
- tumps
- tumping
- tumped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tummock, hump, tummit, tummal, mump, tumulus.
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