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'cumber

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    'cumber (plural'cumbers)

    1. Alternative form ofcumber(cucumber).
      • 2000,Huon Wardle, “An imagined drama of the soul”, inAn Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (Caribbean Studies; 7), Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Ceredigion:The Edwin Mellen Press,→ISBN, part III (Communities),page145:
        A nephew invites Lee and myself to look round his farm: cucumbers, pumpkins and ganja all planted in the steep flinty side of a fire-blackened hill. We return as the sun is setting, Lee having arranged to collect some 'cumbers to take back with him to Kingston.
      • 2002, Charles N. Bamforth, “Boyhood Ambitions”, in Charles A. Bamforth, Richard A. Bamforth, editors,Iron Jaw: A Skipper Tells His Story; Captain Charles N. Bamforth (1895-1975), Pittsburgh, Pa.:Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.,page20:
        The cucumbers grew on vines planted in rows. They reached six feet in height by the time the’cumbers were ready to pick in May and June.
      • 2014, Simon Plant, “Tuesday 21st June 1977”, inAM (Combined),[Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com],→ISBN, volume 1,page246:
        We got some’cumbers for Esther some for Jock and some radish for Esther and for Titley’s first thing tomorrow.
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