tumpline

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

draagband

Synoniemen

become

carrying strap

headstrap

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈtʌmplaɪn/

Etymologie (Engels)

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