tump

• IPA^(key): /tʌmp/
• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Compare Welsh twmp, twm.

tump (plural tumps)

1. (Britain, rare) A mound or hillock.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     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.

   • R. D. Blackmore

     […] 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.

   to tump teasel

Possibly from tumpoke.

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

1. (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")

   Don't tump that bucket over!

2. (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
3. (US, dialectal) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

From Penobscot [Term?]; see tumpline for more.

tump (plural tumps)

1. (uncommon) A tumpline.

tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)

1. butt, thump

• "tump" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.