Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strap slung across the forehead or the chest to support a load carried on the back.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strap by which a pack is carried across a portage or through the woods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, U. S. A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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 .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I had shot a caribou and we were on our way back to the boat, him carrying a tumpline pack that probably weighed 150 pounds.
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I had shot a caribou and we were on our way back to the boat, him carrying a tumpline pack that probably weighed 150 pounds.
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A thick tumpline ran down from her forehead to the bulky pack resting on her hips.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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I had shot a caribou and we were on our way back to the boat, him carrying a tumpline pack that probably weighed 150 pounds.
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A thick tumpline ran down from her forehead to the bulky pack resting on her hips.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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DeJong is a big, burly, bearded Canadian, the kind of guy who wears wool plaid when it's 90 degrees and still uses a tumpline.
T. 2006
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You can rig them on canoes – especially useful if you are paddling an old wood and canvas canoe which may not have perfectly placed thwarts the builder assuming tumpline use anyway – wannigans, pack baskets, barrels, you name it.
“Got a Match?” 2007
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It is the little old men, dressed in rubber-tire sandals, wearing white cotton pants and guayabera, stooped over and plodding down the road with an enormous load on his back, secured by a tumpline across his forehead.
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It is the little old men, dressed in rubber-tire sandals, wearing white cotton pants and guayabera, stooped over and plodding down the road with an enormous load on his back, secured by a tumpline across his forehead.
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While mending my tumpline I hear the geese calling.
Wild Goose 1997
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