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▪ I. dump, n.1|dʌmp|
Also 6 dompe, doompe, dumppe, 6–7 dumpe.
[First found early in 16th c.; derivation obscure.
In form it corresponds to MDu. domp exhalation, haze, mist; and possibly the original notion might be a mental haze or mist, in which the mind is befogged; but connecting links are not known, and the sense-development in Eng. does not quite favour such a starting-point. Cf. also the Ger. adj. dumpf, LG. dump, dull, flat, hollow (in sound), dead, obtuse; mentally depressed, clouded, dazed, or dulled, having the sensations blunted (Grimm); gloomy (silence) (Flügel); but this is known only from middle of 18th c., and has no corresponding n.]
†1. A fit of abstraction or musing, a reverie; a dazed or puzzled state, a maze; perplexity, amazement; absence of mind. (Often in pl.) Obs.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurell 14 So depely drownyd I was in this dumpe, encraumpyshed so sore was my conceyte, That, me to rest, I lent me to a stumpe of an oke. 1530[see dump v.2 1]. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 17/1 [They] were in a great dumpe and perplexitie, and in a maner were at their wits end. 1611Cotgr., Donner la muse à, to put into a dumpe, to make to studie, or pause about a matter. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 973 To rouse him from lethargic dump, He tweak'd his nose, with gentle thump. c1698Locke Cond. Underst. §45 The shame that such dumps cause to well-bred people, when it carries them away from the company.
2. A fit of melancholy or depression; now only in pl. (colloq. and more or less humorous): Heaviness of mind, dejection, low spirits.
1529More Comf. agst. Trib. i. Wks. 1140/2 What heapes of heauynesse, hathe of late fallen amonge vs alreadye, with whiche some of our poore familye bee fallen into suche dumpes. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. viii. 179 Nor lacke throwe men into desperate doompes. 1582T. Watson Centurie of Loue xi. (Arb.) 47 Into howe sorrowfull a dumpe, or sounden extasie he fell. c1600Chevy Chase 198 For Witherington needs must I wayle As one in doleful dumpes. 1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 85 His head, like one in doleful dump, Between his Knees. 1714Swift's Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 513 He tells me that he left you [Swift] horridly in the dumps. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue s.v., Down in the dumps, low spirited, melancholy. 1850Thackeray Lett. 23 Apr., If I am dismal don't I give you the benefit of the dumps?
†3. A mournful or plaintive melody or song; also, by extension, a tune in general; sometimes app. used for a kind of dance. Obs.
a1553Udall Royster D. ii. i. (Arb.) 32 Then twang with our sonets, and twang with our dumps, And heyhough from our heart, as heauie as lead lumpes. a1586Sidney Sonn. in Arb. Garner II. 180 Some good old dumpe, that Chaucers mistresse knew. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. ii. 85 To their Instruments Tune a deploring dumpe. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 421 The funerall Song or Dump of a most ancient British Bard. 1706Addison Rosamond i. iv, What heart of stone Can hear her moan, And not in dumps so doleful join? a1852Moore Vision ii. 33 Like..an Irish Dump (‘the words by Moore’) At an amateur concert screamed in score.
▪ II. dump, n.2
[Not known before the latter part of 18th c., some time later than dumpy a.2, from which it is prob. a back-formation.]
A term familiarly applied to various objects of ‘dumpy’ shape.
a. A roughly-cast leaden counter, used by boys in some games. (In quot. 1859 applied to the disk of metal or ‘blank’ before being coined.) b. A name of certain small coins; esp. a coin worth 1s. 3d. formerly current in Australia, made by punching a disk out of the middle of a Spanish dollar and milling the edge. Hence (slang or colloq.) used allusively for a small coin or amount; and in pl. for money in general. Colloq. phr. not to care a dump: not to care at all; to regard as unimportant. c. A kind of bolt or nail used in ship-building (also dump-bolt, dump-nail); see quots. d. A kind of quoit made of rope for playing on board ship. e. A local name for a short thick skittle; pl. the game played with these. f. A globular sweetmeat, a ‘bull's-eye’. g. Applied to a short and stout person.
a.1770–90D. Kilner Village School ix. in Miss Yonge Storehouse of Stories (1870) 369, I could buy..a top too, and some dumps, and a new skipping-rope. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue s.v., Dumps are also small pieces of lead, cast by schoolboys in the shape of money. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 253 The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps. 1827Hood Retrospect. Rev. v, My dumps are made of more than lead. a1845― Tale Trumpet xxxvi, Playing at dumps, or pitch in the hole. 1859All Year Round No. 10. 239 The golden dumps that are passed into the Weighing Room..are distributed amongst the balances.
b.1821Bank of N.S. Wales Notice 5 May, in Hyman Coins Austral. (1893) iii. 59 The following Description of illegal Coin is much in Circulation:—Dollars and Dumps that are not Silver. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Sir Rupert, When a gentleman jumps In the river at midnight for want of ‘the dumps’. 1843Ainsworth's Mag. IV. 315 Mrs. Dodger didn't care a ‘dump’ if she didn't. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxxv, It's all gone, every dump. 1852J. West Hist. Tasmania II. 141 Dumps struck out from dollars. 1870Henfrey Guide Eng. Coins (1891) 293 The pieces (halfpence and farthings) of 1717 and 1718 are much thicker and smaller than those of the following dates, and generally go by the name of dumps. 1892A. Birrell Res Judicata iv. 116 One of those questions..that..does not matter a dump. 1908G. K. Chesterton All Things Considered 70, I do not care a dump whether they know the alphabet.
c.1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 7, Nails, Dump, are round, and have long flat points. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dump-bolt, a short bolt driven in to the plank and timber as a partial security previous to the thorough fastenings being put in. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 60/1 The fastenings..in the deck-planking..consist of nails or dumps (short bolts) driven into, not through the beams.
e.1895W. Sussex County Times 4 May 8/5 A game known as ‘dumps’.
f.1869Blackmore Lorna D. ii. 5 Some of us..having sucked much parliament and dumps at my only charges. 1894― Perlycross 2 The big Tom Waldron supplied the little Phil Penniloe with dumps and penny-puddings.
g.1840E. Howard Jack Ashore xviii. (Stratm.), Her dump of a daughter. 1867Carlyle Remin. II. 53 A puffy, thickset, vulgar little dump of an old man. 1887C. Hazard Mem. Diman v. 94 The little dump of a rector made an eloquent address on the importance of observing the laws.
▪ III. dump, n.3 local.
[perh. of Norse origin: cf. Norw. dump pit, pool, also dial. Ger. dumpf, dümpfel, dümpel, a deep place in flowing or standing water, an abyss (Grimm); Du. dompelen to plunge, dive, dip.]
A deep hole in the bed of a river or pond.
1788W. Marshall E. Yorksh. Gloss., Dump, a deep hole of water; feigned at least to be bottomless. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Dump, a deep hole in the bed of a river, or in a pool of water. 1887Ruskin Hortus Inclusus 28 An Alpine stream..becomes a series of humps and dumps wherever it is shallow.
▪ IV. dump, n.4
[f. dump v.1, senses 2, 3.]
1. a. (Chiefly U.S.) A pile or heap of refuse or other matter ‘dumped’ or thrown down. spec. A pile of ore, earth, etc., which accumulates during mining operations; esp. U.S. and S. Afr. Cf. mine-dump (mine n. 6).
1865Harper's Mag. Feb. 287/1 A number of Mexicans were at work getting out the ore and..I took a seat a little on one side of the ‘dump’. 1871Rept. in Daily News 21 Sept., The dump is being overhauled and the pay ore selected for the company's mill. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 81 A canyon..was here walled across by a dump of rolling stones. 1883Blackw. Mag. Jan. 49 note, A ‘dump’ is the mass of refuse matter which gathers at the mouth of a mine. 1885C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 8 It was pointed out as an ash-dump from a steamer. 1895St. James' Gaz. 10 Sept. 16/1 Small chips of quartz which I took from the dump of this working. 1909Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 3/3 Such statements as that..a mine dump can contain 40,000 tons, and that such a dump consists of 10 per cent. of pitchblende. 1931J. Mockford Khama xxiii. 155 The grey dumps of the world's greatest gold mines. 1948A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country ii. viii. 174 He..looked out over the veld, out to the great white dumps of the mines, like hills under the sun. 1956H. G. Dines Metalliferous Mining Region S.W. Eng. I. iv. 117 The dumps were being worked over for uranium ores in 1907.
b. The practice of dumping goods (see dump v.1 2 c); also, the goods dumped.
1884Congress. Rec. 1 May 3663/1 It is this dump that we want to stop; it is protection against this dump that the protective system seeks to accomplish. 1908Westm. Gaz. 8 Apr. 9/2 The present ‘dump’, which has assumed such amazing proportions in the eyes of the alarmists.
c. A collection of provisions, ammunition, equipment, etc., deposited in a convenient place for later use; also, the place where such supplies are deposited.
1915Daily Mail 30 Dec. 4/6 The Dump! Just a pile of old clothes, battered helmets, decrepit boots, kit bags, shirts, socks, boots—all the little personal properties of soldiers. 1916J. Buchan Battle of Somme 55 That same day we..took a ‘dump’ of German stores. 1918E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 61 One night about six o'clock I received orders to report at an engineers' dump known as Hyde Park Corner. 1919R. H. Reece Night Bombing with Bedouins 6 The gunners may be called upon to fire at certain targets, such as cross-roads or houses used as infantry headquarters or ammunition and stores dumps. 1925E. F. Norton Fight for Everest: 1924 353 A dump for stores..would seem to be essential half-way between Camps II and III. Ibid. 361 To provide dumps of reserve cylinders on the mountain. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) iii. xxxi. 178 The collection of the necessary food-dumps for the army. 1937N. & Q. CLXXIII. 19/2 Should the Air Ministry succeed in establishing their ammunition ‘dump’ at Acorn Bank [etc.]. 1939[see arms-dump s.v. arm n.2 V].
d. An act of defecation.
1942Berrey & van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §124/1 Defecation,..call of nature, crap, dump. 1966Auden About House 26 To start the morning With a satisfactory Dump is a good omen All our adult days.
e. Computing. The process or result of dumping data (see dump v.1 5); a printout of stored data; spec. a complete listing of the contents of a computer's memory, obtained when a program cannot be fully executed and used to help locate program errors. Freq. attrib.
1956Computers & Automation Jan. 15/2 Dump check, a check which usually consists of adding all the digits during dumping, and verifying the sum when retransferring. 1959Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery VI. 129 The most generally used debugging technique is the post-mortem (static) dump. 1965AFIPS Conf. Proc. XXVII. 220/2 A weekly dump is prepared of all files which have been used within the last M weeks. 1972Computer Jrnl. XV. 192/1 The incremental dump tapes can..be re-used as soon as the next complete dump has taken place. 1978J. McNeil Consultant xxi. 188, I bet you've never had to interpret a dump of a totally unfamiliar program! 198180 Microcomputing Nov. 276/3 When a large system can't figure out what the heck your program is trying to do, it spits it out as a dump. 1983Your Computer (Austral.) Nov. 20/1 You can keep dumps of source listings on paper while your compiled versions are kept on electronic media.
2. a. (Orig. U.S.) A place where refuse material, esp. from a mine or quarry, or that collected from domestic refuse bins, is deposited.
1872Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 68 Natural advantages for the construction of dumps and undercurrents. 1883Century Mag. Jan. 327/1 To use [the cañon] as a ‘dump’ or depository for the ‘tailings’ or débris of his sluices. 1891Boston (Mass.) Youth's Comp. 9 July 13/1 Thrown by housekeepers into the domestic ash-barrel, and from there..taken to the town or city ‘dump’.
b. A place, building, house, etc.: usu. as a pejorative or contemptuous term. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps 393 Dump, a lodging-house or restaurant; synonymous with ‘hang-out’. 1903Cincinnati Enquirer 9 May 13/1 Dump, a house; saloon, hang-out for a gang. 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 30 Dump, a rendezvous; an establishment of any kind; a hangout; a joint; a meeting place. 1919F. Hurst Humoresque 321 You never got in your life to live in a worse dump. 1929P. Johnson Four Plays 26 We'll see what's doin' in this bloody dump. 1932Wodehouse Hot Water i. 27 Do you think if I had any money I'd be living in a dump like the Château Blissac? 1941K. Tennant Battlers xxviii. 192 Commercial travellers..were hurrying through these little ‘dumps’ of towns. 1942Daily Express 8 Jan. 2/7 A uniformed cop patrolled the bar... I didn't think that mattered much at a dump like this. 1959J. Burke Echo of Barbara ii. 13 We'll go and have an evening in the town here. Not much of a dump, but you'll find quite a good crowd there.
3. a. A dull abrupt blow, a thud; a bump, as of a heavy body falling.
1825Jamieson, Dump, a stroke [with the feet]. a1859L. Hunt Robin Hood ii. xxviii, As in a leathern butt of wine..Stuck that arrow with a dump. 1894B. M. Croker Mr. Jervis I. 211 Mrs. Brande..was now let down with a dump.
b. Surfing. = dumper d.
1935Bulletin (Sydney) 9 Jan. 11/3 It gave the Duke of Gloucester his first experience of a dump, in the Mooloolaba surf. 1963Observer 13 Oct. 15/3 A rider..must be able to..escape the ‘dump’ by flicking back off the top of the wave or sliding across to some section where the water is too deep for the wave to break. 1967J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss. 153 Dump, a wipe-out in surfing.
4. attrib. and Comb., as dump-heap, dump-pile = sense 1 a above; esp. used attrib. (chiefly U.S.) to designate vehicles having a body that tilts or opens at the back for unloading materials, as dump car, dump cart, dump truck, dump wagon; dump condenser (see quot. 1960); dump tank, a tank used for receiving a sudden discharge of liquid from a reactor or for storing radioactive liquids while they are dangerous; dump valve, a valve which releases the contents of a container quickly.
1912Out West Feb. 133/1 The small *dump cars were wont to carry the yellow gravel from the cut.
1868Mich. Agric. Rep. VII. 347 Joram Priest, Detroit, [manufactured the] 2 *dump carts.
1958Nuclear Power III. 170 Instrumentation system of a typical gas-cooled reactor..*dump condenser. 1960Gloss. Atomic Terms (H.M.S.O.) 20 Dump condenser, a water-cooled steam condenser which allows the heat output of a power reactor to be ‘dumped’ into the cooling water system should the turbine system become inoperative.
1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance of Moquis xxvi. 286 On the outskirts of the town are great *dump-piles.
1959Nuclear Energy Engineer XIII. 337 Reactor for Chalk River... *Dump tanks. 1964C. F. Bonilla in Reactor Handbk. (ed. 2) IV. iii. 122/1 Dump tanks in any of the coolant systems may receive hot discharge from the system at any time.
1930Water Works & Sewerage Dec. 24/3 Where to buy..*Trucks, Dump. 1936J. Steinbeck In Dubious Battle xv. 295 Up the road from Torgas a huge Mack dump-truck rolled. 1959New Scientist 29 Oct. 801/1 Dump trucks..shifted, on an average, over 500 yards an hour.
1930Flight 4 July 760/1 It is intended to let air into this reservoir quickly when the safety *dump valve is used. 1955Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. XIV. 16 To give a clean shut-down a dump valve was fitted to the cooling jacket which drained overboard any fuel remaining in it.
1869Rep. Comm. Agric. 1868 (U.S.) 357 Wheel⁓barrows, carts, or *dump-wagons will be necessary. 1969Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 9 Nov. 2/1 There were no trucks as today, 120 mules and 50 to 60 dumpwagons on the move from dawn till dark did the trick.
▪ V. dump, a. rare.
[In sense 1, app. f. dump n.1 In sense 2, perh. related to LG. and EFris. dump damp, moist, heavy, close, hollow in sound, etc.]
†1. In a ‘dump’, amazed, perplexed; to strike dump, to strike with amazement. (But perhaps an error for to strike dumb.) Obs.
1616S. Ward Coale from Altar (1627) 31 How can hee chose but be strucke dumpe? 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. I. 53 He was strooken so dumpe, and so full of wonder, to see what I had show'd him, that hee had not a word to say. [Cf. Ibid. I. 79 Whil'st they were thus strucken into their dumps and doubts.]
2. Of the consistence of dough or dumpling; without elasticity or spring.
1852Meanderings of Mem., An heiress doughy-like and dump. 1866J. B. Rose Ecl. & Georg. Virg. 83 The more we knead, the denser will it grow, Adhesive like to pitch and dump as dough.
▪ VI. dump, v.1|dʌmp|
Also 4 domp(e.
[perh. of Norse origin: cf. Da. dumpe, Norw. dumpa, Sw. dial. dompa, to fall suddenly or with a rush, to fall plump; also in same sense the Sw. str. vb. dimpa, damp, dumpit; which may show the primary ablaut series. But the sense of the word has evidently received onomatopœic modification, from its suggestiveness of a dull abruptly-checked blow or thud, and of the action producing this: cf. thump.]
†I. in ME. use.
†1.
a. intr. To fall with sudden force; to plunge.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 362 Vp-so-doun schal ȝe dumpe depe to þe abyme. 1333–52Minot Poems (1887) x. 24 Kene men sall þe kepe, And do þe dye on a day, and domp in þe depe. c1400Destr. Troy 10713 But I degh of þi dynt, and dump into helle. Ibid. 13289 The folke in the flete felly þai drownen:—Þai dump in the depe and to dethe passe.
†b. trans. To cast or fling down forcibly, to plunge down. Obs. (exc. as in 2).
a1300Cursor M. 22643 And driue þam dun all vntil hell, And dump [Gött. bete] þe deuels þider in.
II. in modern use.
2. a. trans. (orig. U.S.) To throw down in a lump or mass, as in tilting anything out of a cart; to shoot or deposit (rubbish, etc.); to fling down or drop (anything) with a bump; to make a dump of (dump n.4 1 c). Also fig.
1784J. Hiltzheimer Diary 16 Mar. (1893) 62 The Street Commissioners selected sites to dump the dirt from the streets. 1828Webster, Dump, v.t., to throw or drop, as a load from a cart. 1856Olmsted Slave States 387 Loading them [carts] with dirt, and dumping them upon the road. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Civilization Wks. (Bohn) III. 13, I see..California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York. 1879MacCook Nat. Hist. Agric. Ant Texas 139 Presently the carcasses..were carried up and dumped into the water. 1880Earl of Dunraven in 19th Cent. Oct. 593 The houses..are..dumped down anywhere. 1882Standard 9 Dec. 3/6 The tip system..by which manure..can be dumped..with no further labour than working a crank handle to give the..cart body the necessary inclination. 1882Sala Amer. Revis. (1885) 128 A baggage porter ‘dumps’ trunks and portmanteaus down on the pavement as though he were delighted with the noise they made in falling. 1887Westm. Rev. CXXVIII. 349 Hundreds of thousands of the poorest and least educated peasantry in..Europe were all at once dumped upon the American seaboard. 1890G. B. Shaw Fab. Ess. Socialism 189 To dump four hundred and fifty millions a year down on the Exchequer counter. 1919A. P. Herbert Secret Battle viii. 165 Philpott..accused him hotly of dumping the rations carelessly anywhere. 1919G. K. Rose 2/4th Oxf. & Bucks Lt. Infty. 35 A pile of logs dumped in the wrong place. 1925E. F. Norton Fight for Everest: 1924 52 To prepare the camp and dump tents and stores for it. 1961New Eng. Bible Acts xxvii. 38 They lightened the ship by dumping the corn in the sea.
b. intr. for refl. To deposit oneself, drop down.
1891Daily News 10 Jan. 3/3 Down we dump in the dead rushes, buckle on our own skates, and are presently flying away with the rest of them.
c. trans. To export, or throw on the market, in large quantities and at low prices; spec. to offer for sale (surplus goods), esp. abroad, at less than the ordinary trade prices. Also absol. Often in ppl. adjs. and vbl. n.
1868Commerc. & Financ. Chron. VI. 326/1 New stock secretly issued [was] ‘dumped’ on the market for what it would fetch. 1884Congress. Rec. 1 May 3663/1 The surplus dumped from foreign pauper markets is the great bane of our industries. 1903Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 2/2 Those who base their case on (a) decreasing exports, and (b) the dumped state of iron and steel. 1903Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 3/7 ‘Dumping’ is in our eyes a great sin. 1904Treasury Oct. 8/1 The..capitalists desire this, as it..enables them to dump their surplus production on foreign countries. 1908Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 10/2 As for the dumping scare,..there is nothing in it. Ibid. 4 May 2/2 You appear to think that he dumps for the sake of dumping. 1916Economist 4 Mar. 458/1 We hear of large stocks of cheap manufactures that will be dumped upon us. 1928Britain's Industr. Future (Lib. Ind. Inq.) i. v. 50 They showed that the practice of dumping demoralises the world-market to the ultimate disadvantage of all concerned. 1957Act 5 & 6 Eliz. II c. 18 (title) Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act. Ibid., For the purposes of this Act imported goods shall be regarded as having been dumped..if the export price from the country in which the goods originated is less than the fair market price of the goods in that country. 1970Financial Times 13 Apr. 12/6 Continental companies could ‘dump’ steel in the U.K. if there are no tariff barriers.
d. To discard, abandon, get rid of. colloq.
1919Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 ‘To dump’ a thing that it is a nuisance to carry means to get rid of it. 1944Korero (N.Z.) 9 Oct. 27 The pony will try..to ‘dump’ its burden [the rider]. 1946D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 29 You've dumped plenty of fellows before. Ibid. 30 Dumping me like this for a couple of dumb sailors.
e. Of a wave: to hurl (a swimmer or surfer) down. Cf. dumper d. Chiefly Austral.
1938J. Moses Nine Miles fr. Gundagai 88 W'en de breakers dumped Me at Curl Curl. 1963Observer 13 Oct. 15/4 The wave traps and dumps the rider, burying him for half a minute or longer and churning him over and over on the ocean floor. 1966Surfer VII. 54 A really good body surfer got banged up pretty bad when a Yokohama wave dumped him right on the reef.
f. intr. Chiefly N. Amer. In slang phr. to dump on (occas. all over) (a person), to criticize or abuse (someone); to better in argument; so to be dumped on, to be defeated in argument or in a game.
[1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 171 [Kansas University] Many of the responses referring to one party's rejection of another, as, for example, a girl breaking a previously arranged date with a boy, are figurative expressions of excremental activities. A boy so treated is said to have been dumped on. ]1967Ibid. XLII. 228 Dump on, to have one's arguments continually defeated by a particular opponent. ‘He is dumping on you’ (i.e. ‘He bettered your arguments’). ‘You've been dumped on’ (i.e., ‘You've had your arguments beaten’). The phrase evidently derives from dump shit on or dump a load of shit on. 1968–70Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 42 Dump on, to criticize.—College students, both sexes. New Hampshire. 1975Saturday Night (Toronto) July–Aug. 20/1 Last year, after a frustrating and unsuccessful try at settling a dispute between Air Canada and its pilots, Hartt dumped on both sides. 1977New Yorker 28 Feb. 27/1 When Ron's first ball flopped, Kerry was candid. ‘Well, you got dumped on with a mere one hundred and fifty-one’. 1985Woman's Own 22 June 36/3 One minute I'm with a woman who makes me feel like a man, the next I'm with someone who's dumping all over me.
3. a. trans. To thump, beat, strike. Sc.
1808–18Jamieson, Dump, to strike with the feet. 1832–53J. Ballantyne in Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs) Ser. ii. 74 He thumpit the blacksmith hame to his wife, He dumpit the butcher, who ran for his life.
b. intr. To strike with a dull abrupt thud.
1832L. Hunt Boileau Battle Bks. 115 The book, like butter dumps against his head.
4. trans. To compress (wool-bales), as by hydraulic pressure. Australia.
1872C. H. Eden My Wife and I in Queensl. 68. 1896 Morris Austral English s.v., Bales are often marked ‘Not to be dumped’.
5. Computing. To copy (stored data) to a different location, usu. to an external storage medium from an internal one, e.g. to check a program or safeguard data; to reproduce the contents of (a store) externally.
1956Computers & Automation Jan. 15/2 Dump, to transfer all or part of the contents of one section of computer memory into another section. 1959Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery VI. 132 There are three ‘information macros’ which enable the programmer to specify the area of core, drum, or tape storage to be dumped. 1964[see byte]. 1969G. B. Davis Computer Data Processing x. 229 Rerun the program until it hangs up and then obtain information on contents of registers,..etc... The entire memory may, in certain instances, be listed, or dumped. 1972Computer Jrnl. XV. 191/2 A simple application of this principle in the case of a disc-base filing system is to dump the entire disc on to magnetic tape at suitable intervals. 1978Nature 10 Aug. 567/2 Optical burst 1 occurred while SAS 3 was dumping data to a ground station and so no X-ray data are available. 198280 Microcomputing Nov. 464/2 Economically, it's very easy to dump an entire newspaper into a data base. 1983Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Nov. 109/2 This device is suited ideally to word processors—for example, a document can be dumped to the printer via the spooler in seconds.
▪ VII. † dump, v.2 Obs.
[f. dump n.1]
1. intr.
a. To fall into, or be in, an abstracted or absent state of mind; to muse.
b. To be in the dumps; to be sad or downcast in spirit.
1530Palsgr. 531, I dumpe, I fall in a dumpe or musyng upon thynges, je me amuse..He dumpeth nowe a days more than he was wont to do. 1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 46 With Colericque fretting I dumpt and ranckled in anguish. 1590Greene Orl. Fur. (1599) 17 He knows the Countie (like to Cassius) Sits sadly dumping, ayming Cesars death. 1590― Never Too Late G, I thought either Diana sate musing on the principles of her modesty, or Venus malcontent, dumping on her amours.
2. trans. To cast into melancholy, sadden, grieve, cast down. (Sometimes blending with dump v.1)
c1585Cartwright in R. Browne Answ. to Cartwright 87 The greater nomber of them being dumped with dumbe ministerie. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 45 The gods..were so dumpt with this miserable wracke [of Hero and Leander], that they beganne to abhorre all moysture. 1614Forbes Def. Lawfull Ministers 66 (Jam.) Which..hath dumped in a deep sorrow all true hearts of both the ilands. |