| 释义 |
dumper|ˈdʌmpə(r)|
[f. dump v.1 + -er1.]
a. One who ‘dumps’ or deposits rubbish, etc.
b. A dumping-cart or truck.
1856Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. VII. 334 There are on the road..20 gravel dumpers. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Dumper, a tilting-car used on dumps. 1958Engineering 7 Feb. 165/3 Designed for a payload of 28 short tons, the end-tip dumper can travel at 24 m.p.h. 1967Guardian 18 July 3/7 A dumper driver.
c. One who, or a country or community which, dumps goods (dump v.1 2 c).
1903Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 5/2 They would not have supported the fiscal policy of Mr. Chamberlain, for they were ‘dumpers’, who sold shoes to the poor below cost-price. Ibid. 21 Nov. 6/3 How long do you think that the dumpers will be content with only dumping unfinished goods? 1919Economist 11 Oct. 568/2 Germany as a ‘Dumper’.
d. A large wave which breaks suddenly and hurls a swimmer or surfer down with great force. Austral. and S. Afr.
1933Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Apr. 11/3 One morning he arrived totally gummy in the lower jaw... ‘Done them in in a dumper yesterday at the surf,’ he told us. 1956S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 166 The dumper is a wave that builds up into a solid mass of water that advances closer inshore without breaking. 1963A. Ross Australia 63 ii. 51 On the surf beaches beyond Manly, the dumpers thunder in. 1970Studies in English (Univ. of Cape Town) I. 27 The most popular expression in South African surfing idiom would appear to be dumper. A ‘dumper’ occurs most often when there is an abrupt rise of the ocean bottom to the shore. The wave thus breaks in shallow water and, instead of breaking slowly from the top, falls suddenly in an arc. |