tump

plural tumps

1. UKrareA mound or hillock.

   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.

   1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

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   […] 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.

   1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone

present singular third person tumps · participle present tumping · participle past tumped · past tumped

1. transitiveTo form a mass of earth or a hillock around.

   to tump teasel

present singular third person tumps · participle present tumping · participle past tumped · past tumped

1. Southern UStransitiveto bump, knock (usually used with "over")

   Don't tump that bucket over!

2. Southern USintransitiveTo fall over.
3. USdialectalTo draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.

   To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.

   1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance

plural tumps

1. uncommonA tumpline.