Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dumping"

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

Dump \Dump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dumping}.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel.
dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw.
dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. {Dump} sadness.]
1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence,
to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand,
coal, etc. [U.S.] --Bartlett.

{Dumping car} or {cart}, a railway car, or a cart, the body
of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called
also {dump car}, or {dump cart}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

dumping
n : selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the
domestic market


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