Now dial. In 6 lompe. [Cf. the synonymous lamp (see E. D. D.) and Du. lompen.] trans. To beat, thresh; to beat or thresh out. Also absol., to thresh.
1546. J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 47. But what neede we lumpe out loue at ones lashyng.
1550. Coverdale, Spir. Perle, vi. (1588), 75. As the … laundresse washeth, beateth, lompeth, and clappeth the foule vnclenly and defiled clothes.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 65. Delving the ditch … Or lumping corn out in a dusty barn. Ibid., II. 31. The thresher once lumping, we heard him no more.
1847. Halliwell, Lump. (1) To beat severely. Var. dial.
