To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.
He] looked ahead of him from behind a tump of whortles.
With a tump line over his forehead, he moved ahead, apparently little concerned about the weight of his load.
I did not think you were going to bring too much but I brought along some dunnage bags and tump lines.
The entire stock of grub gotten the day before had been put away neatly and carefully and the dunnage bags and tump lines were piled in a heap at one end of the table.
At this moment two men swung up the river trail, bending to the broad tump lines that crossed the tops of their heads.
These tump lines supported rather bulky wooden boxes running the lengths of the men's backs.
Asked for an opinion, Tumpbegan twiddling military medal and corrugated the skin on his inch-high brow.
Now, in regard to Cissie Dildine, Peter was not precisely afraid of Tump Pack, but he could not clear his mind of the fact that Tumphad been presented with a medal by the Congress of the United States for killing four men.
Tump marked a sentence in the guaranty of the deed with a rusty forefinger and looked up at Peter in mixed triumph and accusation.
The danger of Tump Pack's jealousy, the loss of his prestige, the necessity of learning the specific answers to the examination questions, all dropped away from him as trivial and inconsequent.
In point of fact, a beating administered by Tump Pack had brought the brown man the first original idea he had entertained in his life.
So to-day, when Tump starts over heah wid his gun, Mr. Bobbs 'resses Tump.
This tump strap is used from Central America to the Arctic Circle.
The Mexican water carrier uses it to tote his burden; the Tete Bule Indian and the Montenais Indian in the Northeast also carry their packs with a tump line.
Get you down stair--I vill tump his nose flat; allez, allez!
This consists of a tump or mound, with an earthwork round it as a ring.
The only similar specimen know in the archaeology of the peninsula is a fragment of a tump band from the upper or historic level of Metate Cave near Comondú.
This fragment is identical with the tump band from Bahía de Los Angeles in weave, selvage, and cordage.
The tump band was used for portage with carrying nets among the historic Indians of central Baja California (see "Carrying Nets").
For the latter purpose two portage methods were in vogue: the net was suspended over the shoulders from a tump band across the forehead; or from the end of a pole held by one hand across the shoulder, as a "bindle.
These they carry on their backs by means of a strap across the tops of their heads; after the fashion of the Canadian tump line.
The headband was known to white men as a "tump line.
The tump must be older than the munitio proper; but we may be sure that the makers of the munitio did not leave it out of their reckonings.
And we have both the tump and the church of Exmes thrown in [Greek: en parergôô].
The child lay above her in a tump of stubbly grass, where Robin Cockscroft had laid him; he had tossed the old sail off, perhaps in a dream, and he threatened to roll down upon the granny.
They form a quadrangle with a tump at one angle immediately above the river, and there are indications of more extended earthworks cut through by the road and mostly levelled.
If one slips with a tump line, on the contrary, a slight twist of the head will disengage and free one from the pack; and if one is hunting the tump pack may readily be dropped at a moment's notice, should game be sighted.
The knack of comfortable tump line carrying once the neck muscles have become developed and hardened to the work is in properly balancing the pack.
With this sort of a pack, as with the tump line, care should be given to the proper adjustment, with the bottom of the pack no lower than the hips.
Gradually, however, he will learn the knack of tump packing and at the end of a couple of weeks of daily experience will find himself able to negotiate a load of one hundred pounds with some ease.
Let me therefore urge the adoption of the tump line for all portage work where fifty pounds or more must be transported.
Canadian voyageurs, Hudson's Bay Company packers and Indians use thetump line to the exclusion of all shoulder-carrying devices.
When the pack is to be made up wholly of bags, lay the tump line on the ground with the thongs parallel to each other and from sixteen to twenty inches apart, depending upon the length of the bags to be packed.
Axes, guns and extra paddles may be thrust under the thongs of the tump line, or carried in the hand.
Now bring the free ends of the tump line to center of pack, on top, cross them and pass them around middle of pack and tie.
Experienced packers with the tump line will sometimes portage loads of upwards of four hundred pounds.
There is a knack in tump line carrying, but the following directions for making up various packs will give the novice sufficient insight, with a little experience, to enable him to acquire the art.
Another method of making up a pack with the pack cloth, common among Canadian voyageurs, is as follows: Spread the cloth upon the ground, and lay the tump line across it, the headpiece near one end and the thongs a foot from the sides.
The tump line or head strap is the one to use if the pack amounts to much above thirty pounds.
To make up the tump line pack proceed as follows:--the blanket or shelter cloth is spread out and the thongs laid lengthwise about a foot from either edge--the blanket is then folded inward and across the thongs.
The Indian-tump line or head strap is the pack carrier par excellence for the transportation of heavy loads.
The most common and satisfactory article for this use is to be found among the array of tump lines, pack sacks or baskets, and pack harnesses, each designed for a purpose good for use in its particular field and very little elsewhere.
The knack of comfortable tump line carrying, once the neck muscles are developed and hardened, is in properly balancing the pack.
It consists of a padded canvas yoke which fits over the breast and shoulders of the wearer and the yoke ends connect by small stout ropes to the pack much the same as with a regulation tump line.
With the tump line one can carry goods of most any bulk and shape.
The pack harness with the tump line combination is the best style to use if one prefers not to use one of the pack sacks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tump" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
