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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.
Synonyms
Examples for "loader"
Examples for "loader"
1
The breech-loader has manifold advantages over the muzzle-loader in a wild country.
2
The speed loader had six rounds ready to drop into the chamber.
3
The second loader steps forward at a signal from the gun captain.
4
Tail lashing with rage, the queen charged the loader a third time.
5
Peter was already climbing into the heavy metal scoop of a loader.
1
The government men were hauling a sodden docker from the polluted waters.
2
The docker stared at him-washe going to sleep on his feet?
3
Deer Janis, you got me the muney for the docker.
4
In full work a docker at the old 7d.
5
The man who had occupied this hole, one Dan Cullen, docker, was dying in hospital.
1
He was built like a greyhound with the shoulders of a stevedore.
2
For twenty years he had fought nothing bigger than a drunken stevedore.
3
I had it from the stevedore, who has been loading their cargo.
4
One third of the American stevedore force in Europe was Negro.
5
Well, if this ain't fortunate. The stevedore's services were required for Mammy Easter.
1
He got beaten every day, in fact, just like every other longshoreman.
2
This was followed by a moment of silence, then a longshoreman's bellow.
3
The pilot, the fisherman and the longshoreman were notorious offenders in this respect.
4
For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher.
5
Jane's language would have made Britney the longshoreman blush down to her boots.
1
He heard the dockworker gasp and felt him clutch at his arm.
2
Perhaps he'd been a dockworker in Miiska before the warehouse burned down.
3
The suspect was named Mateo Judd, a dockworker with an unspectacular criminal record.
4
A dockworker might reasonably show up to an impromptu meeting sweaty and disheveled.
5
He knew he had been the target, not that dockworker.
1
She ate like a dockhand, leaning over the plate and taking big forkfuls.
2
The poorest dockhand has a shirt!
3
She swore like a dockhand as Cahal handed her down, and was rewarded by the amused crease of his eyes.
4
We'll tell you what to say to convince others that you understand how a spacefolder works, as much as a dockhand needs to know.
5
Fishermen and dockhands appeared on the bank beside me, forming a chain with a thick rope wound around their middles.
1
One limb was small and boyish with manicured nails and the other was flat and scarred; a dock worker's hand.
2
Belfast: Mr. McMullan describes scene on one of the harbour quays and introduces a Naval officer and a dock worker.
3
The parents of these Abbey rebels included a printer, a dressmaker, a journalist, a grocer, a dock worker, and a midwife.
4
The city's dock worker's union opposes putting the arena in SoDo, saying it would clog area roads and drive away shipping business.
5
Melvin, a 250lb dock worker, emits a snore of 88 decibels, which is equivalent to the noise of a motorcycle being revved at full throttle.
1
The sneaking dock-walloper, I'll take the starch out of him when we land!
2
A beach-comber, a dock-walloper, if there ever was one.
3
A dock-walloper's idea; eh?
4
Well, among other things, I've been a dock-walloper, a beach-comber by force of circumstance, not above settling arguments with fists, or boots, or staves.
5
The wise will cross to the other side of the street when this burly dock- walloper of a font comes galumphing into view.
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