Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To overturn. Often used with over: You're about to tump that thing over.
- v. To fall over. Often used with over: Is that wheelbarrow going to tump over?
- n. A mound.
- n. A clump of trees, shrubs, or grass.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A little hillock; a heap; a clump.
- In horticulture, to form a mass of earth or a hillock round (a plant): as, to tump teazel.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little hillock; a knoll.
- v. To form a mass of earth or a hillock about.
- v. To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
Etymologies
- Probably akin to tumble.Origin unknown.
Examples
“She's not letting go of "tump," which means "to accidentally knock over," any time soon.”
“Tow-line and pole, paddle and tump-line, rapids and portages, -- such tortures served to give the one a deep digust for great hazards, and printed for the other a fiery text on the true romance of adventure.”
“Koyokuk, the toil of pick and shovel, the scars and mars of pack-strap and tump-line, the straight meat diet with the dogs, and all the long procession of twenty full years of toil and sweat and endeavor.”
“I also learned the word “tump” as in “tump over that wagon and get her out of there.””
“Well, [emphasis] tump . . . [slight pause] . . . [equal emphasis] me.”
“Cindy, you could tump over and conk your head wobbling on one of those things.”
“Then you might as well tump over riding a fiberglass chicken.”
“They're made of the thinnest cardboard allowable by law, and they always collected pools of unwanted dye at the bottom, and you'd always gets drippy, crappy eggs by the time they dried - that is, if the whole thing didn't collapse and tump all your precious masterpieces to the floor.”
“Mr. NEWMAN: Well, I was really into "On Broadway," the way it has that - like, it's driven by those low piano notes and a bass going tududump, tump, tududump, tump-tump.”
“At dusk I crossed a hilltop Essex meadow towards the swelling tump of a wood, Slough Grove.”
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missmurgatroyd mostly a hill, but not necessarily a barrow. Some tumps are the remains of Norman motte and bailey style wooden forts. The defences are long gone, and only the hill, the tump, remains. A bit like stump and hump, I guess. Jul 16, 2008
yarb ...dumped among bins
and tumps of fetid garbage and coils of rank
sloppy dog faces in an ill-lit alley...
- Peter Reading, Found, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 30, 2008
treeseed bowl barrow Feb 18, 2008
trivet Yes, thanks for the clarification! Sep 24, 2007
yarb Hang on - specifically a barrow, I think. I.e. man-made. Is that still OK? Sep 24, 2007
trivet ooooh, ooooh!
*yoink* Sep 24, 2007
reesetee Trivet! Another one for your "Over Hill" list! :-) Sep 24, 2007
yarb A hillock. Sep 24, 2007
mossygams To overturn, especially a container filled with liquid
Dec 4, 2006