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gum-dammer

gum-dammer noun: a pale, brittle, easily powdered resin produced from species of Shorea tree, used in varnishes, traditional lacquers, encaustic painting, incense, etc.

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

Forms of gum-dammer

alternative formgum-dammar

Questions about gum-dammer

What does gum-dammer mean?
Gum-dammer means a pale, brittle, easily powdered resin produced from species of Shorea tree, used in varnishes, traditional lacquers, encaustic painting, incense, etc.
What part of speech is gum-dammer?
Gum-dammer is a noun.

Words near gum-dammer in the dictionary

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

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