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Definition of Cubers
1. cuber [n] - See also: cuber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cubers
Literary usage of Cubers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London labour and the London poor: Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings by Henry Mayhew (1861)
"Well, now, sir," said one man, " the last time I sold Pickwicks and cubers a
penny apiece with lights for nothing, was at Greenwich Fuir, on the sly rather, ..."
2. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"... whilst both the names Guinea Pepper and Malagueta Pepper have been applied to
the dried fruit of Cubeba Clusii (see cubers), and to the seeds of ..."
3. The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine by Charles Whitlock Moore (1862)
"... the sub-cubers to the above p;iper. It i- a worthless cheat, and now that it
can be had Ior the asking, and there is no more money to be made out of it, ..."
4. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South by Ellen M. Ingraham (1882)
"Wen de corn grows we ploughs long side, an' de dirt cubers de cotton seed, we
don't neber cuber de corn, it grows. If all two de corns come up, ..."
5. A Handbook for Small-Scale Densified Biomass Fuel Pellets Manufacturing for (1993)
"... drum and rotary cylinder pelletizers, tablet presses, compacting and briquetting
rolls, piston-type briquet- ters, cubers and screw extruders. ..."
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