tump

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She's not letting go of "tump," which means "to accidentally knock over," any time soon.

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  1. transitive verb To overturn. Often used with over: You're about to tump that thing over.
  2. intransitive verb To fall over. Often used with over: Is that wheelbarrow going to tump over?
  3. noun A mound.
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  • That's the way I feelold horses go tump-tump.... I guess that's the only thing that separates horses and clocks from us. —  This Side of Paradise
  • She's not letting go of "tump," which means "to accidentally knock over," any time soon. —  World Hum
  • From the Oxshott road it came, the tump--tump--tump of a single cylinder motor cycle engine. —  Men of Affairs
  • Loading the head and part of the meat on the sled, I hauled it, while the hunter rolled up the heavy pelt and packed it upon his back with the aid of a tump-line. —  The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure
  • But the tump-line was on it, just as we carried it the day before, so it wasn't as bad as it might 'a' been Well, when I went up the east pine, the bear follered, an', as there wasn't any too much room between me an' the bear, I crosses over into the birch an' slides down its slippery trunk as tho' it was greased. —  The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure
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  1. Probably akin to tumble.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Welsh twmp, a round mass, a hillock; cf. Latin tumulus, a mound: see tumulus, tomb.
  2. from tump, n.
 

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