local. [f. prec. sb.] To make a ‘tump’ or mound about the root of a tree. Also, to store roots in a tump (E.D.D.). Hence Tumping vbl. sb.
1721. Bailey, Tumping, a sort of Fencing for Trees.
1725. Bradley’s Fam. Dict., s.v. Paling, This Method is … more chargeable than Tumping…, but much more durable. Ibid., Tumping, a sort of Fencing in Fields, when a Tree is set … no deeper than to make it stand, tho’ all the Roots be not cover’d, till the Tump or Mould be raised about it.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., To Tump, to fence trees.
