Probably an Indian word. It means to draw a deer or other animal home through the woods, after he has been killed. Ex. 'We tumped the deer to our cabin.' Used in Maine.
·noun A little hillock; a knoll. II. Tump ·vt To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tu...
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a mole-hill. Glouc. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose