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lumper

(ˈlʌmpə)

(Professions) US a stevedore; docker

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Noun	1.	lumper - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port dock worker, docker, dockhand, dock-walloper, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore 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.

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Harvey announced that he never felt better in his life; but it was not till he saw the "We're Here", fresh from the lumper's hands, at Wouverman's wharf, that he lost his all-overish feelings in a queer mixture of pride and sorrowfulness.

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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She is a splitter rather than a lumper, keeping her focus on what she admits was a minority.

Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement

If the plane, travelling from Kuala Lumper to Beijing, had travelled south from it's last known position it would have crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Missing MH370 'could be in Kazakhstan' as 'key location' remains unsearched; The aircraft, carrying 239 people vanished on March 8, 2014 - with no confirmed explanations to what actually happened to the doomed flight

The passenger plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumper came down in Ukraine and all 298 people on board were killed.

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Like the Cavendish, the Irish potato lumper crop lacked genetic diversity, which caused it to start dying out, which led to millions of deaths and mass migrations from Ireland.

Fungus Could Wipe Out World's Banana Supply

They sowed only one strain of potato - the Irish Lumper (uniform potato code).

Hello Mr Chips

"But to have that lumper, it gives me a bit of breathing space ahead of the schedule I've got planned so I can just focus on playing some good golf."

Swapping North East for career chance in Far East

Funds can also be sent directly to lumper service companies if needed.

Comdata launches Comchek Mobile

Whereas Rhoads is a splitter, DeMillo is a lumper, assimilating many rather different phenomena and projects into a master narrative.

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MyLumper, the trucking industry's first electronic payment platform that facilitates lumper fee payment instantly and securely, has launched its web- and smartphone-based solution.