What is "lumpers"

Usage examples of "lumpers".

Also, I would like the names and addresses of the so-called lumpers employed.

Three lumpers were there, moving big pallets loaded with shrink-wrapped boxes into a trailer backed into the dock.

As our little platoon went past the loading docks, some of the lumpers fell in behind us, obviously sensing that something was up.

As they dropped down into the mid-stream the hands from the other boats in port joined the loafers and lumpers on the wharves and cheered.

Where the farmer works with the lumpers and the drover drives a dray, And the shearer on Garden Island is shifting a hill to-day.

Nicolas, with the low shanties serving as offices for the inspectors of navigation, and the large paved river-bank sloping down, littered with piles of sand, barrels, and sacks, and edged with a row of lighters, still full, in which busy lumpers swarmed beneath the gigantic arm of an iron crane.

Katkin, my advisor in graduate school, used to say that there are two types of researchers: lumpers and splitters.