Dump /(dŭmp)/
Dump
n.
- A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.]
Dump
n.
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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.
Doleful dumps the mind oppress.
I was musing in the midst of my dumps.
- Absence of mind; revery.
- A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.]
- An old kind of dance. [Obs.]
Dump
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping
- To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.]
- 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.
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
- That which is dumped.
- A pile of ore or rock. (Mining)
dump
n.
- a coarse term for defecation.