A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
A taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics.
1By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.
2The best work, when he could get it, was being a lumper down on the wharves.
3Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.
4Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper.
5It depends on where you decide to make your divisions-whetheryou are a "lumper" or a "splitter," as they say in the biological world.
6The Lumper was the predominant variety of potato in Ireland before the Great Famine.
7He was going to bring the lumpers upon us, only he was afeared, last winter.
8It deals with "lumpers" and "splitters," and a possible trinomial nomenclature.)
9It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers.
10How impartially Thomson adjusts the claims of "hair-splitters" and "lumpers"!
11At least they were openly these, but, secretly, they were river pirates, "lumpers," "light horsemen," housebreakers, and bravoes.
12The Lumper is a potato variety upon which millions of Irish people depended until it was destroyed by blight from 1845 onwards.
13It 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.")