"lumper" -- that is, a contractor in a small way who took work in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference

Ignacio was a "lumper," unloading the large containers that come to the warehouses from the ports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Woodruff: Depression in California's Inland Empire Shows Need for Employee Free Choice Act] Reference

Oh, and I had no idea that, last year, Greg Paul (a notorious taxonomic "lumper" since at least the '80s) split the taxon Iguanodon into Iguanodon, Mantellisaurus, and Dollodon.    From Wordnik.com.  ["But I could sleep with you there. I could sleep with you there."] Reference

And the panthers...well, I'm a lumper not a splitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panther Purity] Reference

The lumper-proles would KILL for that kind of recognition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

It always seems a mistake to me to definitively choose to be a lumper or a splitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

"The lumper/splitter problem occurs when there is the need to create classifications and assign examples to them.....".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Most people at the conference seemed to think this was overly ambitious and doomed - "Intellectually you have to be a lumper, but procedurally you have to be a splitter," was how Ashrawi put it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Malcomson: If Foreign Policy Were a Castle] Reference

As a natural lumper that makes life easier but I would like to see a simple, short phrase to define each of the different examples because obviously they represent wide divergent decision trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics] Reference

The lumpers are those biologists who try to lump together as many sub-species into a single unit as possible; whereas the splitters are those who think that there's at least two groups of lumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: ETHNOLOGUE IN THE NEWS.] Reference

He writes candidly in a brilliantly obfuscated and multidimensional way concerning the issues in preparing for this latest volume: Still, I'm a lumper, not a splitter, and besides we were in grave danger of being a three-stone hearth still a sturdy tripod, but not a fully quadratic edition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Stone Hearth - Volume 31] Reference

I said that I wasn't a lumper about gender or race.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

By the end of the week he was a transient lumper on a river steamboat.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

My husband has the worst job in the world because he is a meat lumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

"Monsoon, you son of a lumper potato," cried out a surly, gruff voice from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles O'Malley — Volume 1] Reference

Definitely food for thought, but too much worrying about metaphors can lead to something like lumper vs. splitter dithering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

Let an Englishman exchange his bread and beer, and beef, and mutton, for no breakfast, for a lukewarm lumper at dinner, and no supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished] Reference

(Pete) Albisetti were employees with many jobs - crane operator, lumper, washer, boxer, truck loader, maintenance man, and cleanup man.    From Wordnik.com.  [TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region] Reference

An 'sure enough he sunk down soft an' complate through the hay to the bottom; an 'wid the turnin' and roulin 'about in the night, the divil a bit iv him but was covered up as shnug as a lumper in a pittaty furrow before mornin'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers — Volume 3] Reference

At Sydney he worked on the wharves as a lumper, and then joined in the wild rush to the famous Tambaroora diggings, and was fortunate enough to meet with remunerative employment, and from then began his mining experiences, which in the course of the following ten years took him nearly all over the Australian colonies, New Zealand, and Tasmania.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Chinkie's Flat" 1904] Reference

He's a hand nowadays, a helper, a lumper -- not a sailor -- on a great big hulk to which disaster is almost impossible. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wide Courses] Reference

"But wan year there come a flood iv rain, an 'th nex' year another flood, an 'th' third year there wasn't a lumper turned up that wasn't blue-black to th 'hear-rt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War] Reference

A classic lumper-splitter argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Never Bought the Notion of Dune As Science Fiction Either] Reference

They made the lumper stagger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for Kids] Reference

The lumper staggered up the stack.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for Kids] Reference

Mr. Brown, the lumper, and Mr. Sneed, the mason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor and Proud, or the Fortunes of Katy Redburn: a Story for Young Folks] Reference

George is a lumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emergent Chaos] Reference

"I'm a lumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rug Market Takes Flight] Reference

| lumper | varchar (100) | NO | | NULL | |.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A lumper in a pittaty furrow before mornin’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers] Reference

In the former sense it was still occupied by very respectable families, though none of them possessed much of the ` ` goods that perish in the using '' Mrs. Redburn, the seamstress, was very respectable; Mrs. Colvin, the washer - woman, was very respectable, so were Mrs. Howard, the tailoress, Mr. Brown, the lumper, and Mr. Sneed, the mason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor and proud; or, The fortunes of Katy Redburn, a story for young folks] Reference