This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Meaning Of Dump

  1. n.
    A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
  2. v. t.
    A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
  3. v. t.
    Absence of mind; revery.
  4. v. t.
    A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  5. v. t.
    An old kind of dance.
  6. v. t.
    To knock heavily; to stump.
  7. v. t.
    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.
  8. n.
    A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  9. n.
    A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  10. n.
    That which is dumped.
  11. n.
    A pile of ore or rock.



Menu