tump
/tʌmp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
Transitive verb
noun
A tumpline.
Example Sentences
- "The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce."
- "[…] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles."
- "to tump teasel"
- "Don't tump that bucket over!"
- "To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: twmp, -
Usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
- American usage