Dump — Defs

01 n. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

1.
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.[Eng.]

02 n. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

1.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
“March slowly on in solemn dump.” — Hudibras.

“Doleful dumps the mind oppress.” — Shak.

“I was musing in the midst of my dumps.” — Bunyan.
2.
Absence of mind; revery.
3.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.[Obs.]
4.
An old kind of dance.[Obs.]

03 v. t. To knock heavily; to stump.

imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping

1.
To knock heavily; to stump.[Prov. Eng.]
2.
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.[U.S.]

Phrases & compounds

Dumping car — a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

04 n. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

1.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3.
That which is dumped.
4.
A pile of ore or rock.(Mining)

05 n. a coarse term for defecation.

1.
a coarse term for defecation.

Syn. shit.