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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Dimin. of

dump

an illshapen piece; cf. D.

dompelen

to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. to

dump in

to plunge into, and E.

dump

, v. t.]

A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked;

as, an apple

dumpling

Noun.

[from dump.] A kind of pudding or mass of paste in cookery; usually, a cover of paste inclosing an apple and boiled, called apple-dumpling.