Lumpers

Perhaps the author's experience was based on potatoes such as Lumpers, a variety grown in Ireland in the early 1800s.

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Lumpers: Beefy guys who lug items between the house and the truck.

Buzzwords 2008

The Lumpers dispose of their booty easily to marine store dealers, and the only remedy to be suggested is that marine store shops should be licensed, and thus brought under the eye of the police as rigidly as public-houses.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Then there were the Lumpers, or labourers employed to unload vessels.

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So we took no Tier-rangers captive, nor any Lumpers, nor Truckers, nor

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Lumpers also smuggle goods ashore for the crews of vessels.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Lumpers, on the other hand, would see the increase in brain size as merely a racial variation of the same species, a change well within the limits set by natural adaptation and not, therefore, an example of macroevolution at all.

The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

Lumpers, on the other hand, would see the increase in brain size as merely a racial variation of the same species, a change well within the limits set by natural adaptation and not, therefore, an example of macroevolution at all.

The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

Searching for potatoes (Lumpers, no doubt) during famine times in Ireland - Illustrated London News, circa 1849

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Luckily, tastes (and potato varieties) have moved on, so we can relegate the wet, nasty Lumpers to the history books.

Irish Blogs 2009