DCHP-2

dump ((n.)) DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1a n. — Placer Mining

  the pile of gold-bearing dirt excavated and waiting to be washed in the sluice boxes.

• 1b n.

• 2 n. — Lumbering

  a place where logs are piled, as on the bank of a river, by a railway siding, road, etc., ready for moving out to the mill.

  See also: log dump (def. 2)  

• 3 n.

  on a portage, a staging point or resting place, where pieces of cargo are dropped before being packed to the next point.

  See also: pose (def. 2)  

• 4 † n.

  a place where waste is dumped, as slag from mines, refuse from cities, and other detritus.

  See also: garbage dump  

• 5 n.

  a waterfall