Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Loaf-sugar broken into lumps, or cut into small cubes.

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Examples

  • 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

    The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

  • 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

    The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

  • 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

  • -- 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

  • _ -- 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

  • Then you know that the lump-sugar, the raisins, the cake, etc., were always locked up in a pantry.

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • I managed to quiet him by giving him pieces of lump-sugar.

    Baby Chatterbox Anonymous

  • 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.

    Tales of St. Austin's 1928

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