Crossword clues for crump
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crump \Crump\ (kr[u^]mp), a. [AS. crumb stooping, bent down; akin to OHG. chrumb, G. krumm, Dan. krum, D. krom, and E. cramp.]
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Crooked; bent. [Obs.]
Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
--Jer. Taylor. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
--Hallivell.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 (context UK Scotland dialect English) Hard or crusty; dry baked 2 (context obsolete English) crooked; bent Etymology 2
n. The sound of a muffled explosion. v
(context intransitive English) To produce such a sound.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 751
Land area (2000): 14.092780 sq. miles (36.500130 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006754 sq. miles (0.017492 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.099534 sq. miles (36.517622 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18620
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.232480 N, 88.336037 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38327
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Crump
Wikipedia
Crump may refer to:
Crump is a medieval English, Danish, Irish, French surname, meaning crippled man.
Usage examples of "crump".
But Crump had been the driver of the hackney-coach in Alsatia, that much I knew at once.
He had been crumping up an apple placed amongst his feed, and his senses struggled between the lingering flavour of that delicacy,--and the perception of a sound with which he connected carrots.
First, how about this business of putting the prisoners crumped without any suits?
It crumped into the earth right of the moving battery, and a hand-sized fragment of the casing sledged the young gunner forward, tearing open his back to show the bulging pink surface of the lungs through the broken rib.
Craig had set off one grenade from each case, popping them down an ant-bear hole to a satisfactory Crump and cloud of dust.
On Earth, on a field trip in the desert, you could get swings of more than a hundred degrees, and at night you would sometimes hear distant, muffled crumps: rocks, exploding under the pressure of the endless contractions and expansions.
Whistles, crumps, bangs, the tattered sound of fires filled the world.
The heavy crump of the explosion blew a puff of air into his face, and by the sudden flare of flame he saw far below the dark figures standing over the dead horse.
He could hear the heavy crumping of explosions from the south, down towards the river basin and the factory district.