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noun

Dump n. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. (Eng.)

Dump n.

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." Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being in the dumps' after the battle of Cannae."

Absence of mind; revery.

A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. (Obs.) "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump."

An old kind of dance. (Obs.)

Dump n.

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

That which is dumped.

(Mining) A pile of ore or rock.

dump n. A coarse term for defecation.

Synonyms: shit.

verb

Dump v. t. (past & past part. dumped; pres. part. 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.)

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dump" Quotes from Famous Books

... the ship and ready for a second cargo before the last tender had set out upon its first trip, and then for several hours this slavish activity continued. Some crews lost themselves in the gloom, fetched up on the reef, and were forced to dump their freight into the foam, trusting to salvage it when daylight came. Every one was wet to the skin; bodies steamed in the heat; men who had pulled at oars until their hands were raw and bleeding cursed and groaned at their own fatigue. But there was little shirking; those whose strength completely ...

— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach

... an especially big melon McNutt would lug it to the carriage and dump it in. And so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne

... people would own American railway and industrial shares. This could be only for the great benefit of this country but for Europe as well, for the reason that if Europe knew that there was a good absorbing power here it necessarily would not dump its stocks at ...

— The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 • Henry George Stebbins Noble

... charge. If they heard that shot, I will say one of us dropped a bottle of champagne, and it exploded.... When they are gone, I bring the dory alongside; and with your help it should be an easy matter to carry this body up, weight it, row it out to the middle of the lagoon, dump it overboard. Then we return. Our story is, the commander followed the anchor watch ashore; if later he wandered off, got lost in the woods in his alcoholic delirium, that is no affair of ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... plans; projects which entailed work from morning until night for many a day to come. There was a track to lay, an extra skip to be lowered, that they might haul the muck and broken timbers from the cave-in to the shaft and on out to the dump. There were stulls and mill-stakes and laggs to cut and to be taken into the shaft. And there was good, hard work of muscle and brawn and pick and shovel, that muck might be torn away from the cave-in, and good timbers put in place, to hold the hanging wall from repeating ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

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