lumper

Meanings

1. An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
2. A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
3. A militiaman.
4. Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).

1. A lamprey.

1. To lumber; to plod.

1. A variety of potato, best known as the variety that failed in the Irish potato famine.

Etymology

From lump + -er.