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单词 dumper
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dumpern.

Brit. /ˈdʌmpə/, U.S. /ˈdəmpər/
Etymology: < dump v.1 + -er suffix1.
a. One who ‘dumps’ or deposits rubbish, etc.
b. A dumping-cart or truck.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > dumper or tipper
tumbril1440
tumbling car1811
tilt-cart1834
dumper1856
tipper1920
1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 334 There are on the road..20 gravel dumpers.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 Dumper, a tilting-car used on dumps.
1958 Engineering 7 Feb. 165/3 Designed for a payload of 28 short tons, the end-tip dumper can travel at 24 m.p.h.
1967 Guardian 18 July 3/7 A dumper driver.
c. One who, or a country or community which, dumps goods (dump v.1 2c).
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society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > importer or exporter > types of
provision importer1885
net exporter1890
dumper1903
Klondiker1926
parallel importer1980
1903 Daily 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.
1903 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 6/3 How long do you think that the dumpers will be content with only dumping unfinished goods?
1919 Economist 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. Australian and South African.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave
pounder1927
dumper1933
take-off1935
greeny1940
beach break1954
beacher1956
big kahuna1959
greenback1959
close out1962
curl1962
shore break1962
shoulder1962
soup1962
tube1962
wall1962
face1963
peak1963
pipeline1963
set1963
reef break1965
surfable wave1965
point break1966
green room1968
slide1968
barrel1975
left-hander1980
A-frame1992
1933 Bulletin (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.
1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 166 The dumper is a wave that builds up into a solid mass of water that advances closer inshore without breaking.
1963 A. Ross Australia 63 ii. 51 On the surf beaches beyond Manly, the dumpers thunder in.
1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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