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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A timber fender or buffer, placed at the end of a railroad-track to prevent the cars from leaving the rails.
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Well, the train being drawn up with the latter end of each car resting against a lofty bumping-post at A, Tom Furnace, the gentlemanly conductor, and Jean Marie Rivarol, engineer, mount by a long ladder to the exalted number 8.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Henry James 1879
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