noun

• (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
  "He's taken his lumps over the years."
• (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
  "“A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […]”"
• (obsolete, slang) The workhouse.

verb

• (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
  "People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures."
• (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
  "Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went."
• (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
  "The Luftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing to play ball completely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work with Luftflotte 3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year."
• (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
  "If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped."