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- 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).
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Examples
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They were a pie knife and a table crumber in the form of a miniature carpet sweeper.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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The crumber is being rapidly introduced into the leading hotels of the country.
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The crumber is being rapidly introduced into the leading hotels of the country.
Social Notes 1895
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He has now two devices on the market, a bread-maker and a bread-crumber.
Social Notes 1895
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He has now two devices on the market, a bread-maker and a bread-crumber.
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He has now two devices on the market, a bread-maker and a bread-crumber.
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The crumber is being rapidly introduced into the leading hotels of the country.
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Maric would fit perfectly as a crumber between Kennedy and Darling with Lecras up the ground and Young provides depth to their young midfield .
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Maric would fit perfectly as a crumber between Kennedy and Darling with Lecras up the ground and Young provides depth to their young midfield.
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Rucks are developing nicely too so I think a livewire forward crumber is what we need.
chained_bear commented on the word crumber
"Crumbers for cleaning the tablecloth between courses came into widespread use in the 1890s. By that time, most Americans had abandoned the practice of laying two or three cloths on a dinner table, each to be removed after a given course."
—Susan Williams, Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 154
May 3, 2010
reesetee commented on the word crumber
I prefer to add another tablecloth after each course.
May 4, 2010
yarb commented on the word crumber
I just exhort my guests not to be slovenly at table.
May 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word crumber
AHA!!! So yarb *is* a Victorian after all! *cackles gleefully*
May 4, 2010
yarb commented on the word crumber
There's nothing dumber
than a crumber.
May 5, 2010