gumming

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌmɪŋ/

Verb

gumming

1. present participle and gerund of gum

Noun

gumming (countable and uncountable, plural gummings)

1. The act of chewing without teeth.
   • 1994, Don Byrd, The Poetics of the Common Knowledge, page 201:

     We give teething babies ABC books made of materials that can withstand repeated gummings.

2. (mining, historical) The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
3. The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
4. A disease marked by a discharge of gum, affecting stone fruit.