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tump-line
ˈtump-line local U.S. [Origin obscure: cf. tump v.2] See quots.1860 Bartlett Dict. Amer., Tumpline, a strap placed across the forehead to assist a man in carrying a pack on his back. Used in Maine, where the custom was borrowed from the Indians. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 114 Bundles..secured by the ... Oxford English Dictionary
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metump line
metump (line) N. Amer. = tump-line.1754 in Coll. New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. (1824) I. 279 The deponent sold the said Indians two shirts, ..and there was next to their skin tied a number of small metump lines, not such as are usually made for tying packs. 1963 W. S. Avis et al. Dict. Canad. Eng., Interme... Oxford English Dictionary
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Grant McLean (filmmaker)
cinematographer Target - Berlin - documentary short, Ernest Borneman 1944 - co-cinematographer with Samuel Orleans and Donald Fraser Use Your Head: The Tump-Line wikipedia.org
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tump
▪ I. tump, n. (tʌmp) Also 6 tumpe, 7 toompe, tomp. [Not found before end of 16th c.; chiefly a western and w. midl. word; see Eng. Dial. Dict.; origin obscure. Also in Welsh twmp (cf. Buttington Tump in Montgomeryshire); but this may be from English. Welsh has also Twmpath (in Mabinogion twympath), ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Robert Anderson (filmmaker)
Filmography National Film Board of Canada Use Your Head: The Tump-Line Principle of Carrying Loads - documentary short 1944 - writer, producer, director wikipedia.org
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