title: Lumper
text: # Lumper
  
  Lumper may refer to:
  
  * Lumpers and splitters, slang for one who takes a gestalt view of a definition in various fields such as history, linguistics, software engineering, taxonomy, or liturgical studies
  * A stevedore who unloads fish at British fishing ports, or formerly in Australia anyone engaged in loading and unloading ships' cargo
  * Slang for a person who loads/unloads a semi-trailer
  
  As a proper noun, Lumper may refer to:
  
  * Gottfried Lumper (1747–1800), German Benedictine patristic writer
  * An Irish Lumper, a waxy potato whose vulnerability to blight resulted in mid-19th century famines
  