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tumping

tumping is the present participle and gerund of tump.

Meaning of tump

Verb (1)

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

  1. (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
    • to tump teasel

Verb (2)

tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)

  1. (Southern US, transitive) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
    • Don't tump that bucket over!
  2. (Southern US, intransitive) To fall over.
  3. (US, dialectal) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
    • 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.1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance

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Questions about tumping

What is tumping the present participle and gerund of?
Tumping is the present participle and gerund of tump.

Words near tumping in the dictionary

  1. tump lines
  2. tumpang
  3. Tumpat
  4. tumped
  5. tumpeng
  6. tumping
  7. tumpline
  8. tumplines
  9. tumps
  10. tumpties
  11. tumpty

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