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n. 1 A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera ''Shorea'' and (taxlink Symplocus genus noshow=1) of the Dipterocarpaceae family, used in varnishes and inks 2 Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera ''Agathis'' (Araucariaceae family), (taxlink Balanocarpus genus noshow=1) and (taxlink Hopea genus noshow=1), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers.
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Dammer may refer to:
- Carl Lebrecht Udo Dammer (1860–1920), a German botanist
- Ober Dammer, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubin, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland
Usage examples of "dammer".
Darby and sometimes Herman Dammer, his executive, came to my home in Washington to tell about the Rangers, probably on six to eight evenings altogether.
My late wife, Alice Baumer, helped immeasurably on the original manuscript, as did Colonel Herman Dammer, Darby's right-hand man through all the Ranger battles, and Colonel Dammer's wife Elizabeth.
Herman Dammer, was to lead the remaining two companies against the harbor fort.
The Dammer Force then posted outguards around the area while the major was attempting to reach the main body over his walkie-talkie radio.
Hearing that he was free to use any demolitions he wished, Dammer gave the job to Lieutenant Saam, who carried hundreds of pounds of TNT ashore.
On reading these signals the Navy plane came down on the sea, picked up Major Dammer, and flew him to the cruiser Philadelphia.
Herman Dammer, the executive officer of the Ranger force and a New Yorker, also knew the beer-hall routine.
Darby, who had great faith in Dammer, explained that once he was established in Italy, he would use his influence in an attempt to have Dammer transferred there too.
This was Alicia Dammers, the novelist, who ran Women's Institutes for a hobby, listened to other people's speeches with genuine and altruistic enjoyment, and, in practice the most staunch of Conservatives, supported with enthusiasm the theories of the Socialist party.
Fielder Flemming, a short, round, homely - looking woman who wrote surprisingly improper and most successful plays and looked exactly like a rather superior cook on her Sunday out, nudged the elbow of Miss Dammers and whispered something behind her hand.
Miss Dammers conveyed the impression that if that were so, she personally had no further use for it.
Everybody knew that Miss Dammers had been the only woman (so far as rumour recorded) who had ever turned the tables on Sir Eustace Pennefather.
Alicia Dammers, with her good looks, her tall, slim figure, and her irreproachable sartorial taste, had satisfied his very fastidious requirements so far as feminine appearance was concerned.
Morton Harrogate Bradley, (4) Roger Sheringham, (5) Alicia Dammers, and (6) Mr.
Bradley and particularly Alicia Dammers (to these three he gave credit for possessing the best minds in the Circle) before irrevocably committing himself.