Obs. exc. dial. [Cf. LAMPER, LOMPER Obs. Also LUMP v.3 5.]

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  1.  intr. To move clumsily; to stumble or blunder along. Also fig.

2

1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 91. [They] have alwayes hetherto in the interpretation of that Epistle, gropyngly lyke nightowles lumpred in darknesse. Ibid., 311. As men you may lumper and trippe.

3

1787.  Grose, Prov. Gloss., Lumper, to stumble. A lumpering horse. W[est].

4

1898.  T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 206. Over piggeries, and mixens … They lumpered straight into the night.

5

  † 2.  In pa. pple. ? Spread out. Obs.

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c. 1650.  in Furnivall, Percy Folio, I. 114. Her lyppes lay lumpryd’ on her chyn.

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