Definition of Lump sugar

1. Noun. Refined sugar molded into rectangular shapes convenient as single servings.

Generic synonyms: Refined Sugar, Sugar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lump Sugar

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lumiracoxib
lumirhodopsin
lumisome
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lump sugar (current term)
lump sum
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lump together
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lumpectomy
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lumpens
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lumpers

Literary usage of Lump sugar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress of the United States by Joseph Story, United States, George Sharswood (1840)
"... on pain of for- (han six hundred pounds, on pain of forfeiting the said ships or feiture, be. vessels, and the loaf and lump sugar imported therein, ..."

2. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"Water 10 gals.; nice lump sugar, 121 Ibs. ; bruised ginger root, £ Ib. ; the whites of 6 eggs ; yeast, 2 table-spoonfuls; lemons sliced, 10; isinglass, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"... it work more freely, and •with a little lump-sugar to give it body and prevent it cracking, and then spread over the picture with a fine elastic brush. ..."

4. Peter Parley's Annual by William Martin (1859)
"Refined lump sugar, 6d. Doubly Relined lump sugar, 6 id. Trebly Refined Lump Sugar, very pure, 7d. (In ordering lump sugar, please state if it is required ..."

5. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1862)
"In this brochure M. Le Occur says he has very frequently found that the crunching a few pieces of lump-sugar has a very positive influence in counteracting ..."

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