The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catechu \Cat"e*chu\, n. [See Cashoo.] (Chem.)
A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and
evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other
plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of
tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the
arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica,
cutch, gambier, etc.
--Ure.
--Dunglison.
Wiktionary
n. (taxlink Uncaria gambir species noshow=1), a plant from Indonesia
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Headwords:
Gambier
Wikipedia
Gambier may refer to:
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Uncaria gambir, a species of tropical shrub
- An astringent extract made from Uncaria gambir
- James Gambier (1723–1789), a British vice-admiral
- James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (1756–1833), a British admiral also known as Lord Gambier
- Gambier Islands, French Polynesia
- Gambier Islands (South Australia)
- Gambier Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Gambier, Ohio, USA
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Mount Gambier, South Australia
- Mount Gambier (volcano)
Gambier or gambir is an extract derived from the leaves of Uncaria gambir, a climbing shrub native to tropical Southeast Asia. Gambier is produced in Indonesia and Malaysia where it was an important trade item into the late nineteenth century. It can be used as a tanning agent, a brown dye , a food additive and as herbal medicine. Also known as pale catechu, white catechu or Japan Earth, it is often confused with other forms of catechu.
Usage examples of "gambier".
It was a surprise to him that the government had left Admiral Lord Gambier in command of the Channel Fleet for three years, despite the disastrous waste of opportunity at the Basque Roads.
Hornblower continued, formally, but this time Gambier himself interrupted him.
Bush deserved the step, but it was surprising that Gambier should give it to him — Admirals generally had some favourite lieutenant, or some nephew or some old friend's son awaiting the first vacancy.
Calendar could voice open admiration for him, Gambier could treat him with distinction, the young lieutenants could regard him with wide-eyed hero-worship, but they had never hauled down their colours.
Bush deserved the step, but it was surprising that Gambier should give it to him - Admirals generally had some favourite lieutenant, or some nephew or some old friend's son awaiting the first vacancy.
Unlike Gambier she preferred to view her surroundings through electronic imagery.
When Gambier was sure it wouldn't turn turtle, he shut down the engines.
Brieuc his headquarters and went on living there, in his native town, simply, unostentatiously, waiting for better times so that he might marry pretty C‚leste, the daughter of Citizen Gambier, the municipal doctor.
It was the house inhabited by the Citizen Gambier and his daughter C‚leste.
Give him in charge of his man-of-all-work, and then go at once to the house of the Citizen Doctor Gambier, see Mademoiselle C‚leste, his daughter, and tell her the news.
An hour later in a dingy lodging situated not far from the one where Fernand Malzieu was slowly recovering consciousness under the loving eyes of C‚leste Gambier, we men were delighting in the story of this latest adventure of their beloved chief.
At dusk to-morrow we make for the Day-Dream and set sail for England, and unless the little party's obstinacy prove greater than our determination, we'll have Fernand Malzieu and his pretty C‚leste and possibly old Doctor Gambier on board, too.
One of the ships of the line was lost on the voyage home, but the rest were all deemed to be prizes, thus making the senior officers of the expedition indecently rich (Admiral Gambier and General Cathcart alone divided about œ300,000 between them, a fortune).