Lumper

Quick meaning: Lumper is a noun meaning An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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?

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 […]

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.

Word Forms

• lumpers
• lumpering
• lumpered

Synonyms for lumper

Depending on context, synonyms include lumpman, stevedore, docker, dockhand, longshoreman, loader.

Antonyms for lumper

Common opposites include splitter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stevedore, longshoreman, dockhand, docker, loader, lader.

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