lumper noun. ['lʌmpǝ] L18.
[from LUMP verb³ or noun¹ + -ER¹.]
1. A labourer employed in loading and unloading cargoes, a docker; a person employed in unloading fish. L18.

2. A small contractor, a person who contracts for lump work. slang. M19.

3. A person (esp. a taxonomist) who attaches importance to similarities rather than differences in classification or analysis and so favours inclusive categories. Cf. SPLITTER noun 1b. M19.

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lumper verb intrans. ['lʌmpǝ] obsolete exc. dial. E16.
[Perh. symbolic. Cf. LUMBER verb¹.]
Move clumsily; stumble or blunder along.

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