tumplineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• tump line

語源

tump +‎ line, "tump" is an apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌmplaɪn/

名詞

tumpline (複数形 tumplines)

1. 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.
   • 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 2, in The Winds of Chance:

     The speaker slipped his arms into his pack-harness and adjusted the tumpline to his forehead preparatory to rising.

Further reading

• tumpline on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• pilentum