Definition of Metump

1. a tumpline [n -S] - See also: tumpline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metump

metrotomes
metrotomy
metrotrophic test
mets
metsovone
metsulfuron-methyl
mett
mettle
mettled
mettles
mettlesome
mettlesomeness
metts
metuloid
metuloids
metump (current term)
metumps
metyrapone
metyrapone reductase
metyrapone test
metyrosine
metœci
metœcus
meu
meuniere
meus
meused
meuses
meusing

Literary usage of Metump

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society by New Hampshire Historical Society (1824)
"The deponent sold the said Indians two shirts, and happened to see them when they shirted ; and there was next to their skin tied a number of small metump ..."

2. The History of Boscawen and Webster [N.H.] from 1733 to 1878 by Charles Carleton Coffin (1878)
"... they shirted and there was next [their] skin Tyed a Number of small metump Lines not such as are usually made for Tying Packs—a collar of a Length about ..."

3. Travels in America and Italy by François-René Chateaubriand (1828)
"They too are harnessed to the sledges, but they draw with the metump passing over the forehead and not over the breast. The lieutenant-general marches alone ..."

4. The History of Salisbury, New Hampshire: From Date of Settlement to the by John Jacob Dearborn (1890)
"... the said Indians two shirts & happened to see them when they shirted and there was next [their] skin Tyed a Number of small metump Lines not such as are ..."

5. Provincial and State Papers: Documents and Records Relating to the Province by New Hampshire (Colony) Probate Court, Nathaniel Bouton (1872)
"... Tyed a Number of Small metump Lines not such as are usually made for Tying Packs—a Collar of a Length about sufficient to ..."

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