Dump

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That which is dumped.

II. Dump ·noun A pile of ore or rock.

III. Dump ·vt An old kind of dance.

IV. Dump ·vt Absence of mind; revery.

V. Dump ·noun A car or boat for dumping refuse, ·etc.

VI. Dump ·noun A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, ·etc.

VII. Dump ·vt A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

VIII. Dump ·vt To knock heavily; to Stump.

IX. Dump ·noun A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

X. Dump ·vt A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor;

— now used only in the plural.

XI. Dump ·vt 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.

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