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gum-dammar

gum-dammar is the alternative form of gum-dammer.

Meaning of gum-dammer

Noun

gum-dammer (uncountable)

  1. A pale, brittle, easily powdered resin produced from species of Shorea tree, used in varnishes, traditional lacquers, encaustic painting, incense, etc.
    • Now the absorption of so much labour in the cultivation of this one product must necessarily have raised the price of food and other necessaries; and when it was abolished, more rice would be grown, more sago made, more fish caught, and more tortoise-shell, rattan, gum-dammer, and other valuable...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 8

Questions about gum-dammar

What is gum-dammar the alternative form of?
Gum-dammar is the alternative form of gum-dammer.

Words near gum-dammar in the dictionary

  1. gum trees
  2. gum turpentine
  3. gum up
  4. gum up the works
  5. gum water
  6. gum-dammar
  7. gum-dammer
  8. gum-digger
  9. gum-diggers
  10. gum-digging
  11. gum-job

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