SLUMP

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]

2.
v.

To lump; to throw into a mess. These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense. Sir W. Hamilton.

3.
v.

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. Barrow.

4.
n.

A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

5.
n.

The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]


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