Dump (?), n. [See Dumpling.]
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
[Eng.]
Smart.
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Dump, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v. t.]
1.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; 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.
⇒ 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."
Trench.
2.
Absence of mind; revery.
Locke.
3.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
[Obs.] "Tune a deploring
dump." "Play me some merry
dump."
Shak.
4.
An old kind of dance.
[Obs.]
Nares.
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Dump (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.]
1.
To knock heavily; to stump.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
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.]
Bartlett.
Dumping car ∨ 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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Dump, n.
1.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3.
That which is dumped.
4. Mining
A pile of ore or rock.
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