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▪ I. † clumper, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[app. identical with OE. clympre ‘lump, mass of metal’: —type *klumpriôn- f. an adj. klump-ro- clumpish, deriv. of klumpo-: see clump n. Later form assimilated to clump, but cf. clutch:—OE. clyccean.]
A lump, mass; = clump n. 1.
a1000Riddles xli. 75 Unlytel leades clympre. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 134 Wyrc..greate clympran feowur. c1000O.E. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 272/29 Metallum clympre. 1673Phil. Trans. VIII. 5194 Froze into little irregular clumpers. 1731Bailey, Clumper, a clot or clod. 1886Barnes Dorset Gloss., ‘A clumper of gingerbread’.
▪ II. clumper, n.2 colloq. and dial.|ˈklʌmpə(r)|
[f. clumper v.2; cf. clump n. 4.]
1. ‘The sound of heavy tramping’ (Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk.).
2. A thick, heavy shoe. Also a high sea-boot. Usu. in pl.
a1825R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) I. 71. 1845 Knickerbocker XXVI. 417 Stilton made me ten pairs of ‘clumpers’. 1935‘L. Luard’ Conq. Seas 175 New dopper and clumpers to pay for.
▪ III. † clumper, v.1 Obs.
[f. clumper n.]
1. trans. To form into lumps or masses; to clot, congeal. Hence clumpered ppl. a.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 58 b, A iuice whiche ye may fynde..clumpered or growen together. ― Baths 7 a, Clumpered blood that is runne together. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. xcii, Vapours..Clumper'd in balls of clouds.
2. To put together clumsily, to patch up; = clamper v.1
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie, Gentl. Inner Temple, If any..have Clumpered up with the helpe of some rude and gross Minerva any worke.
▪ IV. ˈclumper, v.2
[variant of clamper v.2 Frequentative of clump v. 1.]
To tread heavily and clumsily. Hence clumpering ppl. a. |