Dump \Dump\, n.

1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

3. That which is dumped.

4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Dump \Dump\, n. [See Dumpling.]

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.]

--Smart.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Dump \Dump\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan. dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v. t.]

1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras.

Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak.

I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Dump \Dump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.]

[OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.]

1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.]

--Halliwell.

2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.]

--Bartlett.

Dumping car or cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)