2. Noun. (informal) A beating or verbal abuse. ¹
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Definition of Lumps
1. lump [v] - See also: lump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumps
Literary usage of Lumps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... and as this muft happen if the lumps are formed by the ... lumps are very
different; fome weighing about twa marks, and others much more ; for among ..."
2. The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers: Containing Plans for the Protection of the by Charles Ellet (1853)
"These lumps have considerable firmness of texture, and are liable to rise, and
sometimes do rise, directly in the channel, creating shoal-water where there ..."
3. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc. by David Herd, Sidney Gilpin, George Paton (1870)
"... The carl then he came to me, As auld carles will do. He woo'd me, and lodd
me, &c. lumps of Pudding. ... Sic lumps o' puddings, &c. Birks of Abergeldie. ..."
4. Metallurgical Analysis by Dana James Demorest, Nathaniel Wright Lord (1916)
"Several average lumps should be selected and broken up just enough to exclude
... Now unscrew the top, put in 50 or 100 grams of the weighed lumps of coke, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Puncher machines are also to be preferred in hard or slaty coal, or where hard
lumps of iron pyrite occur in the seam. Puncher machines are especially well ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Other forms of American enterprise were : the making of glass in lumps, to be
chipped into Hakes; ..."
7. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Other forms of American enterprise were: the making of glass in lumps, to be
chipped into flakes; ..."
8. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Large lumps frequently need claying four times. ... and the dripping, added to
proper fugar, would be united therewith in the production of other lumps. ..."
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