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Lump   /ləmp/   Listen
noun
Lump  n.  
1.
A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. " A lump of cheese." " This lump of clay."
2.
A mass or aggregation of things.
3.
(Firearms) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
In the lump,
In a lump, the whole together; in gross. "They may buy them in the lump."
Lump coal, coal in large lumps; the largest size brought from the mine.
Lump sum,
(a)
a gross sum without a specification of items; as, to award a lump sum in satisfaction of all claims and damages.
(b)
a single sum paid once in satisfaction of a claim, as contrasted with the alternate choice of several payments over a period of time; sometimes allowed, e.g., as an alternative to periodical pension payments for a lifetime.


verb
Lump  v. i.  (past & past part. lumped; pres. part. lumping)  
1.
To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars. "The expenses ought to be lumped together."
2.
To take in the gross; to speak of collectively. "Not forgetting all others,... whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to you, I lump all together."
3.
To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it. (Low)





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"Lump" Quotes from Famous Books



... during the next minute or two. There was a struggling knot of men pressed against the side of the car, but it broke up when more figures came running up and one man cried out sharply as he was struck by a heavy lump of gravel. Then Hardie found himself kneeling beside Farren, who lay senseless near the wheels with the blood running down his set white face. Behind him stood the panting locomotive engineer, trying to hold back ...
— Ranching for Sylvia • Harold Bindloss
... man was Bob Yancy and the boy was Hannibal. Yancy had acted with extraordinary decision. He had sold his few acres at Scratch Hill for a lump sum to Crenshaw—it was to the latter's credit that the transaction was one in which he could feel no real pride as a man of business—and just a day later Yancy and the boy had quitted Scratch Hill in the gray dawn, and turned their ...
— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester
... me jealous to see it, for I am very fond of you; but not to that degree; I haven't lost my appetite, quite the other way; always going up and down stairs, till my legs are so tired that I drop down of an evening like a lump of lead. Here am I neglecting my poor Cibot for you; Mlle. Remonencq cooks his victuals for him, and he goes on about it and says that nothing is right! At that I tell him that one ought to put up with something for the sake of other people, ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... method, and the relation these sustain to independence; in short, that there is a vast deal more out of books than in books; and, finally, that the man who knows only what is in books is generally a lump of conceit, and of about as much weight in the scales of actual life as the ashes of the Alexandrian library, or the worms in any parchments that ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various
... the young squeaker there, mate?" he asked in a bantering tone, thinking probably that I had broken a toy, or lost a lump of ...
— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston


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