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dump is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 10 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 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. Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps' after the battle of Cannæ." Trench.
  2. 2.Absence of mind; revery. Locke.
  3. 3.A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." Shak.
  4. 4.An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.
  5. 5.To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  6. 6.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.
  7. 7.A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  8. 8.A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  9. 9.That which is dumped.
  10. 10.(Mining) A pile of ore or rock.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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