Definition of dump

• n. - A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
• v. t. - A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
• v. t. - Absence of mind; revery.
• v. t. - A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
• v. t. - An old kind of dance.
• v. t. - To knock heavily; to stump.
• v. t. - 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.
• n. - A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
• n. - A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
• n. - That which is dumped.
• n. - A pile of ore or rock.