1 obsolete; a crooked back
2 obsolete; hunchback

1. A crunching sound
2. Shell, bomb.

ETYM Cf. Dutch homp a lump, LG. hump heap, hill, stump, possibly akin to Eng. heap. Related to Hunch.
1. A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back (such as that of a hunchback).
2. A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.

ETYM Cf. Hunchback.
1. A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine; SYN. hunchback, crookback.
2. Large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives; SYN. humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae.

(Irregular plural: hunches).
The act of arching one's back.

1. A back with a hunch or hump, resulting from difformity.
2. A hunchbacked person.