▪ I. dumping, vbl. n.1
(ˈdʌmpɪŋ)
[f. dump v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb dump; flinging down in a heavy mass; depositing of rubbish, etc.; concr. a heap of material flung down or deposited. (See also dump v.1 2 c.)
| 1883 Howells Woman's Reason xii, The Common, where for three months past the monumental dumpings of the icy streets had dismally accumulated. 1894 Sala Lond. up to date xvii. 210 Noises of the hammering of rivets, and the dumping down of huge sheets of metal. |
b. attrib. Used for dumping or depositing loads, as dumping-bucket, dumping-car, dumping-cart, dumping-machine, dumping-place, dumping-reel, dumping-sled, dumping-wagon. dumping-ground, a place where refuse, etc., is deposited; also transf. and fig.
| 1857 N.Y. Tribune 18 May (Bartlett), There is much difficulty in getting dumping grounds for the dirt from the streets. 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., Dumping-reel, an arrangement in a harvester for dropping the gavels of grain. 1883 Harper's Mag. May 829/1 Dumping-place for city refuse. 1885 Pall Mall G. 2 Jan. 3/1 A ‘dumping ground’ for all the human garbage collected in the moral cesspools of the [French] Republic. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 17 May 3/1 A corrupt young married woman..whom the mother finds a convenient dumping-ground for this too mature daughter. 1936 J. C. Beaglehole New Zealand i. 15 England needed a new dumping-ground for convicts. 1969 J. Mander Static Soc. viii. 269 The sub-continent is being used as a dumping-ground for obsolescent weaponry. |
2. Path. The abnormally rapid emptying of the stomach via the bowels such as sometimes occurs after partial gastrectomy. Freq. attrib. and as ppl. a., esp. in dumping syndrome (see quot. 1970).
| 1922 C. L. Mix in Surg. Clinics N. Amer. II. 617 Patient suffering from severe gastric disturbance following gastro⁓jejunostomy. Fluoroscopic examination revealed a ‘dumping stomach’. 1935 G. B. Eusterman et al. Stomach & Duodenum x. 241 In performing gastro-enterostomy, the stoma should be neither too large nor too small... If too large, so-called ‘dumping’ results with precipitant evacuation of gastric content. Ibid. lix. 845 Too rapid emptying of the stomach, ‘dumping stomach’, following gastro-enterostomy or gastric resection may cause a train of disturbances, chiefly intestinal. 1954 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Nov. 1131/2 Serious ‘dumping’..happens to have been associated with bilious regurgitation. Ibid., It is customary..to suggest that the ‘dumping’ syndrome subsides..within a few months of [gastrectomy] operation. 1970 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xvii. 3/2 After surgical removal of part of the stomach, patients sometimes suffer from attacks of sweating and flushing, weakness and occasionally fainting together with intestinal discomfort and explosive diarrhoea. These symptoms..are known as the dumping syndrome. |
▪ II. † dumping, vbl. n.2 Obs.
[f. dump v.2 + -ing1.]
Mental stupefaction.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 114 b, To note the brutish grossenesse and dumping of the minde. |
▪ III. † dumping, n. Obs.
[f. dump v.1 (sense 1) + -ing, or (in form dompyng) a nasalized form of doppyng, f. dop v. Cf. the synonym dompus, app. a nasalized form of doppes, doppe n.]
A dabchick or didapper.
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xiv. 169 In mareis and in mores in myres and in wateres Dompynges [v. rr. dumpynges, doppynges, dompus] dyueden. |