lumper

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The song, despite the accompanying sounds of eagle squawks and bombs bursting in air isn't a patriotic throat-lumper -- it's about domestic violence.

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  1. In some places, a laborer employed to load and unload vessels in port; a dock-hand; a longshoreman; a stevedore.
  2. A militiaman. [Provincial English] He hath a cursed spite to us, because we shot his father. He was going to bring the lumpers upon us, only he was afeared, last winter. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xxxviii.
  3. In zoology, one who lumps several described species, genera, etc., in one: opposed to splitter. [Cant.] The second paper contains, first, a discussion of some principles of zoological classification, being an answer to Dr. Seebohm's reproach of having … aimed at “hitting the happy medium between lumpers and splitters.” Nature, XXXIX. 156.

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  • The song, despite the accompanying sounds of eagle squawks and bombs bursting in air isn't a patriotic throat-lumper -- it's about domestic violence. —  BlatherWatch
  • Definitely food for thought, but too much worrying about metaphors can lead to something like lumper vs. splitter dithering. —  Pharyngula
  • We have generally had some organisation or another--whether constitutional or unconstitutional--but, apart from this, the nature of the employment of our working-men, especially in O'Connell's time, brought them together in such a way that large numbers of them knew each other, and could act together in case of emergency MacManus, who had command of the stewards on the night of the attack, knew a number of men like Mick Digney, who was what was called a "lumper"--that is, a contractor in a small way who took work in the "lump" and employed men for loading and unloading ships. —  The Life Story of an Old Rebel
  • By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat. —  John Barleycorn
  • Mr. Brown, the lumper, and Mr. Sneed, the mason. —  Poor and Proud, or the Fortunes of Katy Redburn: a Story for Young Folks
 

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