lumper

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.

2. 2

   A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or…

   A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.

3. 3

   A militiaman.

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   1. 4

      Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).

   2. 5

      A lamprey.

   3. 6

      To lumber

      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?
      • Lord, what's the good o' my lumpering all the way to church and back again, when I'm as deaf as a plock?
   4. 7

      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.
      • In the 1840s, however, these two counties were among the worst affected when Ireland's potatoes -- those big floury Lumpers that sustained millions -- began to rot.

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