Crumb

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crumb \Crumb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crumbed} (kr[u^]md); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Crumbing} (kr[u^]m"[i^]ng).]
     To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to
     crumb bread. [Written also {crum}.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crumb \Crumb\ (kr[u^]m), n. [AS. cruma, akin to D. kruim, G.
     krume; cf. G. krauen to scratch, claw.] [Written also
     {crum}.]
     1. A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of
        bread or other food, broken or cut off.
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              Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from
              the rich man's table.                 --Luke xvi.
                                                    21.
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     2. Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.
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     3. The soft part of bread.
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              Dust unto dust, what must be, must;
              If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust. --Old
                                                    Song.
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     {Crumb brush}, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table.
  
     {To a crum}, with great exactness; completely.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crumb
       n 1: a very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb of
            information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of
            comfort in the report"
       2: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
          "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
          bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call
          a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: {rotter}, {dirty dog},
           {rat}, {skunk}, {stinker}, {stinkpot}, {bum}, {puke}, {lowlife},
           {scum bag}, {so-and-so}, {git}]
       3: small piece of e.g. bread or cake
       v 1: coat with bread crumbs; "crumb a cutlet"
       2: break into crumbs
       3: remove crumbs from; "crumb the table"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  134 Moby Thesaurus words for "crumb":
     abrade, air pollution, atom, atomize, attritus, beat, besprinkle,
     bit, bite, bran, bray, bread, brecciate, butt, chip, chunk, clip,
     clipping, collop, comminute, contriturate, cosmic dust, crumble,
     crush, cut, cutting, disintegrate, dollop, dot, dram, dredge, drop,
     droplet, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, end, fallout, farina,
     filings, fleck, flour, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gob, gobbet,
     grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, grits,
     groats, hunk, iota, jot, kittens, levigate, lint, lota, lump, mash,
     meal, microbe, microorganism, midge, mill, minim, minutia,
     minutiae, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote,
     nip, ounce, paring, particle, patch, pepper, pestle, piece,
     pinhead, pinpoint, point, pound, powder, pulverize, pussies,
     rasher, raspings, reduce to powder, sawdust, scintilla, scoop,
     scrap, scrunch, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver,
     smash, smidgen, smithereen, smut, snack, snatch, snick, snip,
     snippet, soot, spatter, speck, speckle, splatter, splinter, spot,
     sprinkle, squash, stitch, stud, stump, tag, tatter, tittle,
     triturate, vanishing point
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  crumb n. Two binary digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than
     a {nybble}. Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. General discussion of such
     terms is under {nybble}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  crumb
       
          Two binary digits; a {quad}.  Larger than a {bit},
          smaller than a {nibble}.  Considered silly.  Synonym {tayste}.