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Of certain trees
Answer for the clue "Of certain trees ", 7 letters:
gumming
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Word definitions for gumming in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of gum English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) [syn: mumbling ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (g[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming .] To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. He frets like a gummed velvet. --Shak. To chew ...
Usage examples of gumming.
His cohorts were doing their ghost dance now, thinking that if they stomped around long enough, revving their chain saws and gumming their snoose, the tide of jogging-shoed, tree-hugging, latte lovers would disappear into Puget Sound, taking their cell phones with them to fifty fathoms, their stacks of Helly Hansen catalogs and their World Wraps fast-food outlets.
The mortician resumed snipping and gumming, shaking his head, grinning like a clown.
There was grim solace in the fact that crooks were gumming their own game, by going after the very man they were trying to blame for their own misdeeds.
There was blood in my eyes, blood that was gumming the lids together and making me blind.
He tilted his weapon up to chip with a knifeblade at the matrix material gumming his ejection port.