tumpline

See also: tump line

English

Using a tumpline

Alternative forms

• tump line

Etymology

From 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