▪ I. † clumper, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
[app. identical with OE. clympre ‘lump, mass of metal’: —type *klumpriôn- f. an adj. klump-ro- clumpish, deriv. of klumpo-: see clump n. Later form assimilated to clump, but cf. clutch:—OE. clyccean.]
A lump, mass; = clump n. 1.
| a 1000 Riddles xli. 75 Unlytel leades clympre. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 134 Wyrc..greate clympran feowur. c 1000 O.E. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 272/29 Metallum clympre. 1673 Phil. Trans. VIII. 5194 Froze into little irregular clumpers. 1731 Bailey, Clumper, a clot or clod. 1886 Barnes Dorset Gloss., ‘A clumper of gingerbread’. |
▪ II. clumper, n.2 colloq. and dial.
(ˈklʌmpə(r))
[f. clumper v.2; cf. clump n. 4.]
1. ‘The sound of heavy tramping’ (Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk.).
2. A thick, heavy shoe. Also a high sea-boot. Usu. in pl.
| a 1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) I. 71. 1845 Knickerbocker XXVI. 417 Stilton made me ten pairs of ‘clumpers’. 1935 ‘L. Luard’ Conq. Seas 175 New dopper and clumpers to pay for. |
▪ III. † clumper, v.1 Obs.
[f. clumper n.]
1. trans. To form into lumps or masses; to clot, congeal. Hence clumpered ppl. a.
| 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 58 b, A iuice whiche ye may fynde..clumpered or growen together. ― Baths 7 a, Clumpered blood that is runne together. 1647 H. More Song of Soul ii. xcii, Vapours..Clumper'd in balls of clouds. |
2. To put together clumsily, to patch up; = clamper v.1
| 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie, Gentl. Inner Temple, If any..have Clumpered up with the helpe of some rude and gross Minerva any worke. |
▪ IV. ˈclumper, v.2
[variant of clamper v.2 Frequentative of clump v. 1.]
To tread heavily and clumsily. Hence clumpering ppl. a.