1. Noun
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
2. Verb
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
3. Verb
Absence of mind; revery.
4. Verb
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
5. Verb
An old kind of dance.
6. Verb
To knock heavily; to stump.
7. Verb
To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.
8. Noun
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
9. Noun
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
10. Noun
That which is dumped.
11. Noun
A pile of ore or rock.
12. Noun
(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
Vocabulary classified under Computing and technology
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