jumper

(lum’pér), x. 1. In some places, a la- borer employed to load and unload ve els in port; a dock-hand; a longshoreman; a stevedore.—2. A militiaman. [Prov. Eng.] Heath a cursed spite to us, because we shot his father. He was going to bring the Jumpers upon us, only he was afeared, last winter. R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, xxxviii. 8. In zodl., one who lumps several deseribed species, genera, ete., in one: opposed to splitter. [Cant.] The second paper contains, first, a discu ion of some principles of zoGlogical cla ification, being an answer to Dr. Seebohm’s reproach of having aimed at ‘“‘hitting the happy medium between /wmpers and splitters.” & Nature, XX XIX. 156, _lump-fish (lump’fish), x. [= G. Zumpfisch (also klumpfisch);