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noun
An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, human-sciences, linguistics, natural-sciences, sciences
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Antonyms: splitter
noun
A militiaman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: lumpman
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noun
A lamprey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
A variety of potato, best known as the variety that failed in the Irish potato famine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To lumber; to plod.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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noun
a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: splitter
Broader terms: taxonomist, taxonomer, systematist
noun
a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper
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Broader terms: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
History
From lump + -er.
