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Meanings of lumper in English

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A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

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      A taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics.

            Usage of lumper in English
            1
            By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.
            John Barleycorn
            2
            The best work, when he could get it, was being a lumper down on the wharves.
            The secret river
            3
            Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.
            John Barleycorn
            4
            Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper.
            The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
            5
            It depends on where you decide to make your divisions-whetheryou are a "lumper" or a "splitter," as they say in the biological world.
            A short history of nearly everything
            6
            The Lumper was the predominant variety of potato in Ireland before the Great Famine.
            The Irish Times
            7
            He was going to bring the lumpers upon us, only he was afeared, last winter.
            Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
            8
            It deals with "lumpers" and "splitters," and a possible trinomial nomenclature.)
            More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
            9
            It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers.
            Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
            10
            How impartially Thomson adjusts the claims of "hair-splitters" and "lumpers"!
            More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
            11
            At least they were openly these, but, secretly, they were river pirates, "lumpers," "light horsemen," housebreakers, and bravoes.
            Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03
            12
            The Lumper is a potato variety upon which millions of Irish people depended until it was destroyed by blight from 1845 onwards.
            The Irish Times
            13
            It is down the river, you know, that all the lumpers drop with the lighters they go adrift in from ships' sides.
            The Frozen Pirate
            14
            (Those who make many species are the "splitters," and those who make few are the "lumpers.")
            Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
            Translations for lumper
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            Lumper through the time