Word of the Day:
tumpline
What It Means
A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just above the forehead.
Tumpline in Context
“The speaker slipped his arms into his pack-harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.”
Did You Know?
From tump + line, "tump" is an apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
Source and license
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