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bumps [bəmps]
(mining engineering)
Sudden, violent expulsion of coal from one or more pillars, accompanied by loud reports and earth tremors.


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To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet undertaken.
Why the mosquitoes there bite holes in you--raise bumps on you as big as eggs.
The Lord never made either year face or head for X---- What good can your bumps of ideality, comparison, self-esteem, conscientiousness, do you here?
 
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