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Definition of Lumpers
1. lumper [n] - See also: lumper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumpers
Literary usage of Lumpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames: Containing an by Patrick Colquhoun (1800)
"HAVING taken a solemn Oath to be faithful to the trust reposed in you as Foreman
of the lumpers you employ, to discharge the respective Ships assigned you ..."
2. The Moth Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Moths of North America by William Jacob Holland (1903)
""SPLITTERS" AND "lumpers" Every true naturalist is called upon to exercise the
faculty of discrimination and the faculty of generalization. ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"The truck is a large square platform, on four low wheels ; and upon this the
lumpers pile bale after bale of cotton, as if they were filling a large ..."
4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Power to Commissioners to make regulations for the government of lumpers. (§ 19.)
lumpers' Contracts, as particularized under heads, to be register- ed at ..."
5. A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames: Containing an by Patrick Colquhoun (1800)
"The Department for employing lumpers. —The general Department of Accounts.—Recapitulation
of iht whole, -with ag eneral Flew of the Annual Expence. ..."
6. The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters by A. F. (1804)
"... The lumpers, mentioned above, otherwise denominated Heavy Horsemen, are of
the most criminal class, who generally selected ships where plunder was most ..."
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