Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Lumper"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lumper \Lump"er\, n. [Cf. {Lamper eel}.] (Zo["o]l.)
The European eelpout; -- called also {lumpen}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lumper \Lump"er\, n.
1. One who lumps.

2. A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when
in harbor.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

lumper
n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: {stevedore},
{loader}, {longshoreman}, {docker}, {dockhand}, {dock
worker}, {dock-walloper}]
2: a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on
the basis of major characteristics [ant: {splitter}]


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