tumpline
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tumpline
1790–1800; tump (earlier mattump, metomp < Southern New England Algonquian < proto-Eastern Algonquian *mat- empty root appearing in names of manufactured objects + *-a·pəy string) + line 1
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The speaker slipped his arms into his pack- harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.
From The Winds of Chance by Rex Ellingwood Beach
The water was so high that they could run most of the rapids, and stretches that they had formerly toiled up with tumpline or tracking-line they now covered with the speed of a bullet.
From Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock
He knew that there would be long portages where they would have to carry the supplies with a tumpline; and he also knew that nothing is so wearing on a novice.
From Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock
A tumpline is attached to the top of the knapsack straps.
From Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White
Towline and pole, paddle and tumpline, rapids and portages—such tortures served to give the one a deep disgust for great hazards, and printed for the other a fiery text on the true romance of adventure.
From The Son of the Wolf by Jack London
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