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Entry 12 senses · 5 variants Webster, 1913

Dump

/(dŭmp)/ · IPA /dʌmp/
01 n. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
  1. 1.
    A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.[Eng.]
02 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.
  1. 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.” — Shak.
    “I was musing in the midst of my dumps.” — Bunyan.
  2. 2.
    Absence of mind; revery.
  3. 3.
    A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.[Obs.]
  4. 4.
    An old kind of dance.[Obs.]
03 v. t. To knock heavily; to stump.
imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping
  1. 1.
    To knock heavily; to stump.[Prov. Eng.]
  2. 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.
04 n. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  1. 1.
    A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  2. 2.
    A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  3. 3.
    That which is dumped.
  4. 4.
    A pile of ore or rock.(Mining)
05 n. a coarse term for defecation.
  1. 1.
    a coarse term for defecation.
Syn. shit.