1893. `The Daily News' (London), May 11, p. 4:
"The metallic currency was then [1819-25] chiefly Spanish dollars, at that time and before and afterwards the most widely disseminated coin in the world, and they had the current value of 5<i>s</i>. But there were too few of them, and therefore the centre of them was cut out and circulated under the name of `dumps' at 1<i>s</i>. 3<i>d</i>. each, the remainder of the coin—called by way of a pun, `holy dollars'—still retaining its currency value of 5<i>s</i>."
<hw>Dump</hw>, <i>v</i>. to press closely; applied to wool. Bales are often marked "not to be dumped."
1872. C. H. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 98:
"The great object of packing so close is to save carriage through the country, for however well you may do it, it is always re-pressed, or `dumped,' as it is called, by hydraulic pressure on its arrival in port, the force being so great as to crush two bales into one."
1875. R. and F. Hill, `What we saw in Australia,' p. 207:
"From the sorting-tables the fleeces are carried to the packing-shed; there, by the help of machinery, they are pressed into sacks, and the sacks are then themselves heavily pressed and bound with iron bands, till they become hard cubes. This process is called `dumping.'"
<hw>Dumplings</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Apple-berry</i> (q.v.).
<hw>Dundathee</hw>, or <hw>Dundathu Pine</hw>, <i>n</i>. the Queensland species (<i>Agathis robusta</i>, Sal.) of the <i>Kauri Pine</i> (q.v.); and see <i>Pine</i>.
<hw>Dungaree-Settler</hw>, <i>n</i>. Now obsolete. See quotation.