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Gumming   Listen
verb
Gum  v. t.  To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.


Gum  v. t.  (past & past part. gummed; pres. part. gumming)  
1.
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."
2.
To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.
gum up
(a)
To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum; as, to gum up the drainpipe.
(b)
to interfere with; to spoil. (Slang)


Gum  v. i.  To exude or form gum; to become gummy.





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"Gumming" Quotes from Famous Books



... assistant, still gumming and pasting his slips with punctilious regard to duty, had been following his master's ...
— In Luck at Last • Walter Besant


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