tumpline
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
— The speaker slipped his arms into his pack-harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.
词源
From tump + line, "tump" is an apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).
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