Sumpter

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsÊŒmptÉ™/

Origin

Old French sometier, from late Latin sagma, from Greek σαγμα ‘pack-saddle’.

Full definition of sumpter

Noun

1. (obsolete) the driver of a packhorse
• 1605: Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
  To this detested groom. — William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.ii
2. a packhorse, a beast of burden
3. (obsolete) A pack; a burden.

Anagrams

• restump
• stumper