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Definition of Clumpers
1. clumper [n] - See also: clumper
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Literary usage of Clumpers
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1. Essays on the Punishment of Death by Charles Spear (1844)
"One of the hopeful class, for whose edification the hanging had been done, taking
hold of them, observed, ' By , they 're clumpers. How I wish I'd seen 'em ..."
2. A Legacy of Historical Gleanings by Catharina Van Rensselaer Bonney (1875)
"... to the school with bound and cramped feet, but her mother removed the bands
a few months since, and now she rejoices in wearing heavy Chinese clumpers. ..."
3. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"CLUE,*, three skeins of hempen thread. clumpers, s. pi. very thick and heavy shoes.
Wooden shoes are called by the same name in Holland. ..."
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