'cumber

plural 'cumbers

1. alternativeAlternative form of cumber (“a cucumber”).

   We got some ’cumbers for Esther some for Jock and some radish for Esther and for Titley’s first thing tomorrow.

   2014, Simon Plant, “Tuesday 21st June 1977”, in AM (Combined), [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, volume 1, page 246

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   A nephew invites Lee and myself to look round his farm: cucumbers, pumpkins and ganja all planted in the steep flinty side of a fire-blackened hill. We return as the sun is setting, Lee having arranged to collect some 'cumbers to take back with him to Kingston.

   2000, Huon Wardle, “An imagined drama of the soul”, in An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (Caribbean Studies; 7), Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Ceredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, part III (Communities), page 145

   The cucumbers grew on vines planted in rows. They reached six feet in height by the time the ’cumbers were ready to pick in May and June.

   2002, Charles N. Bamforth, “Boyhood Ambitions”, in Charles A. Bamforth, Richard A. Bamforth, editors, Iron Jaw: A Skipper Tells His Story; Captain Charles N. Bamforth (1895-1975), Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc., page 20