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Crump   /krəmp/   Listen
Crump

verb
1.
Make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants.  Synonyms: scrunch, thud.
2.
Bombard with heavy shells.
3.
Explode heavily or with a loud dull noise.






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"Crump" Quotes from Famous Books



... one division of General Grant's army was at Pittsburg. Two miles above the Landing the river begins to make its great eastern bend. Lick Creek comes in from the west, at the bend. Three miles below Pittsburg is Snake Creek, which also comes in from the west. Five miles further down is Crump's Landing. General Lewis Wallace's division was near Crump's, but the other divisions were between the two creeks. The banks of the river are seventy-five feet high, and the country is a succession of wooded hills, with numerous ravines. There are a few clearings and farm-houses, but ...
— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin

... was the reply. "There's one biggish crump-hole straight ahead, and two more on the left a bit farther on, and there's a tidy lot ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry

... springing lightly from Dame Crump's sheltering arm. "Ye secret, black, and midnight hags, ...
— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards

... garden in Vlamertynghe with a marble seat overturned beside a smashed tree, a corner just made for lovers, once. An enormous crump hole fills the greater part of the garden, and the wall has fallen outwards in one mass leaving the fruit trees standing in a line, their arms outstretched. Across on the other side of the road Captain Norman Stewart lies buried. But his memory lives in the hearts of men, and wherever the 2nd battalion ...
— On the King's Service - Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms • Innes Logan

... Mrs Crump was a discontented old lady who lived in the room beneath Nurse. For some reason Nancy took a deep interest in her, and even in the middle of Nurse's best stories she was always on the alert for the least sound of the sharp ...
— Penelope and the Others - Story of Five Country Children • Amy Walton



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