| 单词 | metump line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmetump line Chiefly amongst North American Indians: a strap for bearing or supporting a weight; spec. a band passed across the forehead or chest and used to haul a burden; = tump-line n. Also (occasionally): the burden so supported. Also in metump line. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > strap around forehead metumpa1753 portage strap1847 tump-line1860 a1753 in Amer. Anthropologist (1906) 8 675 An Indian Mattump or braided strap wt wch they tye their children to the bark of a tree as soon as born. 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. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. ix. 331 The Indians draw these carriages with great ease be they ever so much loaded, by means of a string which passes round the breast. This collar is called a metump. 1851 J. W. De Forest Hist. Indians Connecticut viii. 314 An Indian mode of carrying burdens, by a metomp, or bag, hanging down the back, and supported by a strap passing over the forehead. 1963 W. S. Avis et al. Dict. Canad. Eng., Intermediate Dict. 561/1 Metump, a broad strap or headband that is passed around the forehead and attached to a load carried on the back. < as lemmas |
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