Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
2. (biology, linguistics) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
3. (dialect) A militiaman.
4. (historical) Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).
5. (dialect) A lamprey.
6. (intransitive, archaic) To lumber; to plod.

Example Sentences

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 population of the water-front.

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?

Word Forms

• lumpers
• lumpering
• lumpered

Synonyms for lumper

Antonyms for lumper

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When Should You Use Lumper?

Use lumper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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