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Definition of Tumpline
1. n. A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
Definition of Tumpline
1. Noun. A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just behind the forehead. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumpline
1. a strap for supporting a load on the back [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumpline
Literary usage of Tumpline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Provincial and State Papers by New Hampshire (1873)
"Abel Brown, 1 gun, 1 cartridge box, 1 tumpline. Nahum Powers, 1 knapsack, lhat,
... tumpline " — A strap placed across the forehead to assist a man In ..."
2. On Canada's Frontier: Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure, and of the by Julian Ralph, Frederic Remington (1892)
"... not only a constitution of iron, but that shrewdness which is only VOYAGEUR
WITH tumpline Scotch, and he afterwards developed remarkable foresight, ..."
3. History of the Town of Hollis, New Hampshire, from Its First Settlement to by Samuel Thomas Worcester (1879)
".)/l., , tumpline ,s. ad., , gun £,, IDS., " , ,8 6 Isaac Stearns, , knapsack ,s.
... 8d., , tumpline ,s. 3d., " an It appears from the above certificate, ..."
4. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"... which the backs of Indians or ladinos who carry goods supported by a tumpline
on their foreheads, a traffic I observed in 1975 from February to May. ..."
5. ... Masters of the Wilderness by Charles Bert Reed (1914)
"... ranging from one hundred to three hundred pounds suspended by headstrap, or
tumpline, they would run the portages with zeal and good-natured rivalry. ..."
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