U.S. [Origin obscure: cf. TUMP-LINE.] trans. To drag or carry by means of a tump-line.
1855. Haliburton, Nat. & Hum. Nat., I. 268. A man passed the … barrack-gate, tumping (which means … hauling) an immense bull-moose on a sled.
1860. Bartlett, Dict. Amer., To Tump. Probably an Indian word…. ‘We tumped the deer to our cabin.’ (Maine.)
