tumpline

Using a tumpline

Meaning

Noun

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.

Origin

Tump is a shortening of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi ("head").

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