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 sb. Later form assimilated to clump, but cf. CLUTCH:OE. clyccean.]
A lump, mass; = CLUMP sb. 1.
a. 1000. Riddles, xli. 75. Unlytel leades clympre.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., III. 134. Wyrc greate clympran feowur.
c. 1000. O. E. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 272/29. Metallum clympre.
1673. Phil. Trans., VIII. 5194. Froze into little irregular clumpers.
1731. Bailey, Clumper, a clot or clod.
1886. Barnes, Dorset Gloss., A clumper of gingerbread.