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Definition of Crumber
1. Noun. (Australian rules football) A player who waits around a marking contest aiming to get the ball if it falls down to the ground (because the opposing players leaping for it have spoiled each others efforts). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crumber
1. one that crumbs [n -S] - See also: crumbs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumber
Literary usage of Crumber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Haworth -- Past and Present: A History of Haworth, Stanbury & Oxenhope by Joseph Horsfall Turner, . (1879)
"... Black Dike, crumber Dike, crumber Hill, Withins Foot. Beginning again at
Stanbury, we have on the left bank of Sladen Beck—Hob Hill, Back Lane, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"crumber. sb. A draining scoop, shaped like an L, for removing the "crumbs." [Hund.
of Berk. ..."
3. The Genesee Farmer. (1859)
"... -I'Hl-crumber, taken from the Ohio Cultivator. 'his is one of the most useful
things in the book, "here is also an elaborate puff and flaming illustra- ..."
4. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1858)
"... with this tool I take out the other foot two and a half inches wide at the
bottom and as even as a plank, and with the crumber before named, ..."
5. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"An ingenious machine on the market, " The Bread crumber," does this work. Egg used
for crumbing should be broken into a shallow plate and beaten with a ..."
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