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Meanings of lumper in English
A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
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.
2
The best work, when he could get it, was being a lumper down on the wharves.
3
Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.
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.
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.
6
The Lumper was the predominant variety of potato in Ireland before the Great Famine.
7
He was going to bring the lumpers upon us, only he was afeared, last winter.
8
It deals with "lumpers" and "splitters," and a possible trinomial nomenclature.)
9
It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers.
10
How impartially Thomson adjusts the claims of "hair-splitters" and "lumpers"!
11
At least they were openly these, but, secretly, they were river pirates, "lumpers," "light horsemen," housebreakers, and bravoes.
12
The Lumper is a potato variety upon which millions of Irish people depended until it was destroyed by blight from 1845 onwards.
13
It is down the river, you know, that all the lumpers drop with the lighters they go adrift in from ships' sides.
14
(Those who make many species are the "splitters," and those who make few are the "lumpers.")
Frequent collocations
Lumper through the time