The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
[…] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
US, Dialectal To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
To reach our sleeping quarters under the roof we were obliged to climb seven flights of stairs and after tumping a blanket roll and a ruck-sack up these, both our breath and enthusiasm had suffered abatement.1918, Robert Whitney Imbrie, Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance:
tump
noun
Etymology Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).