Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Loaf-sugar broken into lumps, or cut into small cubes.
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Examples
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								Mr. Commissioner Pordage kept in a red-and-black japanned box, like a family lump-sugar box, some document or other, which some Sambo chief or other had got drunk and spilt some ink over (as well as I could understand the matter), and by that means had given up lawful possession of the 
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								Mr. Commissioner Pordage kept in a red-and-black japanned box, like a family lump-sugar box, some document or other, which some Sambo chief or other had got drunk and spilt some ink over (as well as I could understand the matter), and by that means had given up lawful possession of the 
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								It looked as if a ton of grey lump-sugar had been tipped across the hangar floor in the chance shape of an aeroplane. The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968 
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								-- Take a quart of boiling water, and add to it five ounces of lump-sugar, the yellow rind of the lemon rubbed off with a bit of sugar, and the juice of three lemons. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs 
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								_ -- The young cocoa-nut contains about a tumblerful of a liquid something resembling water sweetened with lump-sugar, and very slightly acid. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner 
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								Then you know that the lump-sugar, the raisins, the cake, etc., were always locked up in a pantry. 
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								To encourage the coffee somewhat the Deacon "dug" his front foot into the lump-sugar bowl and extracted a couple of aces; and the other mimics followed suit with two, three, and four spots. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope 
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								How she extricated herself from this dilemma, it is not necessary to state; suffice it to say, that a few weeks saw cette petite bête Henri, happily domiciled in the Place Valois; and, if not overburdened with apparel, at least released from the terrible debt of six and thirty francs, and six pounds of lump-sugar. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie 
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								I managed to quiet him by giving him pieces of lump-sugar. Baby Chatterbox Anonymous 
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								The cat strolled into the tea-room in the patronizing way characteristic of his kind, but was heavily shelled with lump-sugar, and beat a rapid retreat. 
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