lumper
UK/ˈlʌmpə/US/ˈlʌmpɚ/
lumper noun: an extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
Noun (1)
lumper (plural 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...1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC
- A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
- Antonyms:
- splitter
- A militiaman.
- Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).
- Synonyms:
- lumpman
Noun (2)
lumper (plural lumpers)
- A lamprey.
Verb
lumper (third-person singular simple present lumpers, present participle lumpering, simple past and past participle 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 […]1866 (date written), Thomas Hardy, “The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1898, →OCLC, page 190
- But, my dear woman, why ever have ye come lumpering up to Rainbarrows at this time o' night?1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part first, London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, Act II, scene v, page 81
Noun (3) capitalized: Lumper
Lumper (countable and uncountable, plural 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.2012, David Buchanan, Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter, →ISBN
- 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 therefore one of the most historic of all the heirloom potato varieties now preserved under the careful...2013, William Woys Weaver, 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From, →ISBN, page 146
Synonyms of lumper
Antonyms
Forms of lumper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lumpers |
| plural | Lumpers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lumpers |
| present participle | lumpering |
| past participle | lumpered |
| past | lumpered |
Origin of lumper
From lump + -er.
Words that rhyme with lumper
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Questions about lumper
- What does lumper mean?
- Lumper means an extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
- What part of speech is lumper?
- Lumper can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce lumper?
- Lumper is pronounced /ˈlʌmpə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lumper?
- The plural of lumper is lumpers.
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