ˈhummie Dockers' colloq.
[? Related to hummock or hump.]
See quot.
| 1887 19th Cent. XXII. 486 (Dock Life of East Lond.) With timber, a growth on the back of the neck called a ‘hummie’, the result of long friction, is needful to enable a man to balance a plank [in discharging cargoes] with any degree of comfort. |