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Lumper   Listen
noun
Lumper  n.  
1.
One who lumps.
2.
A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lumper" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the occasion. Leaving his mother and sisters in lodgings in Melbourne, he made his way to New South Wales with a mob of travelling cattle, earning his pound a week and rations. At Sydney he worked on the wharves as a lumper, and then joined in the wild rush to the famous Tambaroora diggings, and was fortunate enough to meet with remunerative employment, and from then began his mining experiences, which in the course of the following ten years ...
— Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories - 1904 • Louis Becke

... artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy^; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool &c 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper^, roustabout. maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright. machinist, mechanician, engineer. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... all work, factotum. workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy[obs3]; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool &c. 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper[obs3], roustabout. maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright. machinist, mechanician, engineer. sempstress[obs3], ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... lumper potato," cried out a surly, gruff voice from a berth opposite. "Monsoon. Who's at ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever



Words linked to "Lumper" :   docker, longshoreman, dock-walloper, manual laborer, taxonomer, jack, dockworker, dock worker, systematist, dockhand, splitter, labourer, taxonomist, loader, laborer, lump



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