lumper

Definition

An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.

Etymology

From lump + -er.

Example Sentences

• "There were owners of lines of schooners, large contributors to the societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine-insurance agents, captains of tugs and water-boats, riggers, fitters, lumpers, salters, boat-builders, and coopers, and all the mixed population of the water-front."