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lumper
UK /ˈlʌmpə/ US /ˈlʌmpɚ/
noun 6verb 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
great, growing
LUMPER + NOUN
therefo
Definitions
noun
1
An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
There were owners of lines of schooners, large contributors to the societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine-insurance agents, captains of tugs and water-boats, riggers, fitters, lumpers, salters, boat-builders, and coopers, and all the mixed population of the water-front.
2
A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
3
A militiaman.
4
Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).
noun
1
A lamprey.
verb
1
To lumber; to plod.
Over piggeries, and mixens, and apples, and hay, / They lumpered straight into the night; / And finding bylong where a halter-path lay, / At dawn reached Tim's house […]
But, my dear woman, why ever have ye come lumpering up to Rainbarrows at this time o' night?
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
- stevedore
- loader
- longshoreman
- docker
- dockhand
- dockworker
- dock-walloper
Idioms & Phrases
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There were owners of lines of schooners, large contributors to the societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine-insurance agents, captains of tugs and wat
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Over piggeries, and mixens, and apples, and hay, / They lumpered straight into the night; / And finding bylong where a halter-path lay, / At dawn reached Tim's house […]
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But, my dear woman, why ever have ye come lumpering up to Rainbarrows at this time o' night?
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Lord, what's the good o' my lumpering all the way to church and back again, when I'm as deaf as a plock?
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“Over there I'm growing Lumper,” he tells us as we look across potato rows growing between poplar windbreaks.
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The Lumper, as they call this particular variety of pots, is a symbol of this Irish dilemma, for this is the infamous potato that failed in the 1840s and caused the great famine. The Lumper is therefo
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