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lumper

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lumper [ˈlʌmpə]
n
(Business / Professions) US a stevedore; docker
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Noun1.lumper - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a portlumper - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
2.lumper - a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics
systematist, taxonomer, taxonomist - a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior
divider, splitter - a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics


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By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.
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.
 
 
 
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