tummal

English

Noun

tummal (plural tummals)

1. (UK, Cornwall, dialect, obsolete) A great quantity or heap.
   • 1846, Jan Treenoodle, Specimens of Cornish provincial dialect, page 27:

     Sich powerful tummals of beastes was there, / One cud gist e'ne scrouge room for to stond in the fere.

   • 1863, John Tillotson, The boy's yearly book, page 73:

     "It's pure gowld," said Betty, " and wuth tummals of money."

   • 1878, Frances Eliza Millett Notley, Love's crosses:

     […] it's a good thing for she to get a husbind that can give her a goulden coach to ride in, if she's got a mind to it. But there, her pretty face is wuth a tummal of money […]