lumper
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lumper¹
- /ˈlʌmpə/ UK
- /ˈlʌmpɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From lump + -er.
noun lumpers
- 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 populati
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A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
Opposite: splitter
- A militiaman.
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Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).
Similar: lumpman
lumper²
- /ˈlʌmpə/ UK
- /ˈlʌmpɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ʌmpə(ɹ)
noun lumpers
- A lamprey.
lumper³
- /ˈlʌmpə/ UK
- /ˈlʌmpɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ʌmpə(ɹ)
verb lumpers · lumpering · lumpered
- 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 […]
Lumper⁴
noun Lumpers
- A variety of potato, best known as the variety that failed in the Irish potato famine. “Over there I'm growing Lumper,” he tells us as we look across potato rows growing between poplar windbreaks.
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title = {lumper},
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