'cumber

See also: cumber

English

Noun

'cumber (plural 'cumbers)

1. Alternative form of cumber (“cucumber”).
   • 2000, Huon Wardle, “An imagined drama of the soul”, in An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (Caribbean Studies; 7), Lewiston, N.Y., Queenston, Ont., Lampeter, Ceredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, part III (Communities), page 145:

     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., page 20:

     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”, in AM (Combined), [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, volume 1, page 246:

     We got some ’cumbers for Esther some for Jock and some radish for Esther and for Titley’s first thing tomorrow.