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noun

Crumb n. (Written also crum)

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. "Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table."

Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.

The soft part of bread. "Dust unto dust, what must be, must; If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust."

Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table.

To a crumb, with great exactness; completely.

verb

Crumb v. t. (past & past part. crumbed; pres. part. crumbing) (Written also crum) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.

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"Crumb" Quotes from Famous Books

... infant will not agree with another. (1) The one that I have found the most generally useful, is made as follows—Boil the crumb of bread for two hours in water, taking particular care that it does not burn, then add only a little lump-sugar (or brown sugar, if the bowels be costive), to make it palatable. When he is six or seven months old, mix ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin-point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass. "That? Oh, ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... to spin out the meal, it was not yet four when the last crumb and drop had vanished; and, finding nothing else to do, they nestled down in their four corners again with the quiet melancholy of a dying day settling down on them once more. Though it was June, the land outside seemed already to take on a look of evening, ...

— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... a crumb of cake in the house!" said Mrs. Brown one morning. "Jane's gone and there's all the sweeping to do, the baby to take care of, and three meals ...

— Pages for Laughing Eyes • Unknown

... please do try to eat a little," urged Fanny, with tears in her eyes. "What will Massa Horace say if he axes me 'bout your eatin' an' I'm 'bliged to tell him you didn't eat never a mouthful of dinner, an' likewise not the first crumb of your supper?" ...

— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley

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