lumper

[ luhm-per ]

noun

1. a day laborer employed to handle cargo, as fish or timber.
2. Biology Informal. a taxonomist who believes that classifications should emphasize similarities among organisms and therefore favors large, inclusive taxa ( splitter ).

lumper

/ ˈlʌmpə /

noun

1. a stevedore; docker

Word History and Origins

Origin of lumper¹

1775–85; lump ¹ (in v. sense) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Lumper, a low thief who haunts wharves and docks, and robs vessels, also a person who sells old goods as new.

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"Monsoon, you son of a lumper potato," cried out a surly, gruff voice from a berth opposite.

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So a lumper, or 'longshoreman, had told the men where to put things.

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A lumper was a man who did the work of carrying things into a ship, or out of it.

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