lumper UK /ˈlʌmpə/US /ˈlʌmpɚ/noun 5verb 1forms 3 noun5 •A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups. •An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship. •(dialect) A militiaman. •(dialect) A lamprey. •(historical) Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”). verb1 •(no longer used) To lumber; to plod.Over piggeries, and mixens, and apples, and hay, / They lumpered straight into the night; / And finding bylong where a halter-path lay, / At dawn reached Tim's house […] — 1866 formslumpered · lumpering · lumpers
Lumper noun1 •A variety of potato, best known as the variety that failed in the Irish potato famine.“Over there I'm growing Lumper,” he tells us as we look across potato rows growing between poplar windbreaks. — 2012 formsLumpers