lumpers

Noun (1)

lumper (plural lumpers)

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...1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC
2. A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.

   Antonyms:

   splitter

3. (dialectal) A militiaman.
4. (historical) Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).

   Synonyms:

   lumpman

Noun (2)

lumper (plural lumpers)

1. (dialectal) A lamprey.

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