[f. LUMP v.3 + -ING1.]
1. The action of LUMP v.3 in various senses.
1607. Markham, Caval., VII. (1617), 14. It is very good to save the blood … and whilst he bleedes, to stirre it about for lumping.
1757. Monitor, No. 96, II. 424. The lumping of characters together, and giving them in such general terms, as convey no distinct and clear idea.
1851. Fraser’s Mag., Aug., 144. With … a dryness and lumping in my throat.
1903. Speaker, 14 March, 576/2. The Committee could object to the ‘lumping’ of votes.
2. The occupation or business of a ‘lumper.’
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1861), III. 289. In order to become acquainted with the system of lumping.
