Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dams up water, or who builds dams.
- noun Same as
dammar-resin .
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- noun A clear to yellow
resin , obtained inMalaya from trees of thegenera Shorea and Symplocus of theDipterocarpaceae family, used invarnishes andinks - noun Any of various hard
resins , obtained especially fromevergreen trees , notably of the genera Agathis (pine family), Balanocarpus and Hopea, native tosoutheast Asia , also used in varnishes andlacquers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 products of the seas and the forests would be obtained.
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He has taken my bale of dammer and spice I won beyond the seas,
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He has taken my bale of dammer and spice I won beyond the seas,
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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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 products of the seas and the forests would be obtained.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The export of dammer is a mere trifle -- four tons in 1852, twelve tons in 1853.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857
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I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand --- I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane wi 'auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till't doun at Glen-Withershins yonder.' '
The Antiquary 1845
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Success six chests of pitch and _dammer_, two barrels of tar, and six slabs of copper; and Captain Clipperton gave him _twenty-four_ quarter deck guns, [242] some round shot, a compass, and a few other necessaries.
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Tore waxcloth, split teak-wood, and chipped out the dammer;)
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Tore waxcloth, split teak-wood, and chipped out the dammer;)
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand -- I carried it for mony a year, till I niffered it for this tin ane wi 'auld George Glen, the dammer and sinker, when he took a fancy till't doun at Glen-Withershins yonder. "
The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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