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gum-dammer en · NOUN
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(uncountable) 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 products of the seas and the forests would be obtained.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 8:
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