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lumpering

lumpering is the present participle and gerund of lumper.

Meaning of lumper

Verb

lumper (third-person singular simple present lumpers, present participle lumpering, simple past and past participle lumpered)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) 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

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Questions about lumpering

What is lumpering the present participle and gerund of?
Lumpering is the present participle and gerund of lumper.

Words near lumpering in the dictionary

  1. lumpenproletariat
  2. lumpenproletariats
  3. lumpens
  4. lumper
  5. lumpered
  6. lumpering
  7. lumpers
  8. lumpfish
  9. lumpfishes
  10. Lumphanan
  11. Lumphat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lumpering (page history and authors); lumper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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