Dump1. (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
2. (n.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
3. (v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.
4. (n.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
5. (n.) An old kind of dance.
6. (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
7. (v. t.) 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. (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
9. (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
10. (n.) That which is dumped.
11. (n.) A pile of ore or rock.
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