lumper

/luhm-per/US // ˈlʌm pər //UK // (ˈlʌmpə) //

翻车机,翻斗车,翻车器,翻斗

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a day laborer employed to handle cargo, as fish or timber.
- : Biology Informal. a taxonomist who believes that classifications should emphasize similarities among organisms and therefore favors large, inclusive taxa.

Lumper, a low thief who haunts wharves and docks, and robs vessels, also a person who sells old goods as new.
"Monsoon, you son of a lumper potato," cried out a surly, gruff voice from a berth opposite.
So a lumper, or 'longshoreman, had told the men where to put things.
A lumper was a man who did the work of carrying things into a ship, or out of it.