/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dock-side Lumper (A)
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One engaged in delivering and loading shipsʹ cargoes.
“Judging of my histrionic powers by my outward man, he probably thought me more fit for a dock-side lumper than an actor.”—C. Thomson: Autobiography, p. 191.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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