Dump /(dŭmp)/

Dump

n.
  1. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.]

Dump

n.
  1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
    March slowly on in solemn dump.
    — Hudibras.
    Doleful dumps the mind oppress.
    I was musing in the midst of my dumps.
  2. Absence of mind; revery.
  3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.]
  4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.]

Dump

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping

  1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.]

Phrases & Compounds

Dumping car
a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

Dump

n.
  1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped.
  4. A pile of ore or rock. (Mining)

dump

n.
  1. a coarse term for defecation.