Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various hard resins obtained from trees of the genera Shorea, Balanocarpus, and Hopea, native to southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago and used in varnishes and lacquers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as dammar-resin.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of dammara.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine
Etymologies
- Malay damar, resin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.) are abundant.”
“Of the various sorts of tree producing dammar, some are said to be valuable as timber, particularly the species called dammar laut, not mentioned by Rumphius, which is employed at Pulo Pinang for frame timbers of ships, beams, and knees.”
“When a quantity of it has fallen in the same place it appears like a rock, and thence, they say, or more probably from its hardness, it is called dammar batu; by which name it is distinguished from the dammar kruyen.”
“The dammar is a kind of turpentine or resin from a species of pine, and used for the same purposes to which that and pitch are applied.”
“Here also grew the fan-leafed palm, whose small, nearly entire leaves are used to make the dammar torches, and to form the water-buckets in universal use.”
“One had its beautiful head all defiled by pitch from a dammar torch; another had been so long dead that its stomach was turning green.”
“Sometimes the dammar accumulates in large masses of ten or twenty pounds weight, either attached to the trunk, or found buried in the ground at the foot of the trees.”
“Galela men had established themselves as collectors of gum-dammar, with which they made torches for the supply of the Ternate market.”
“It exports tin in large quantities, gutta-percha collected in the interior by the aborigines, coffee, which promises to become an important production, buffalo hides, gum dammar, and gharroo.”
“After dark the Chinamen made the largest bonfire I ever saw, or at all events the most brilliant, with trunks of trees and pieces of gum dammar, several pounds in weight, which they obtained by digging, and this was kept up till daylight, throwing its splendid glare over the whole hill-top, lighting up the forest, and bringing the cabin out in all its picturesqueness.”
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Gums & Resins
Naturally occurring gums and resins.
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knitandpurl "A haggard almsman can drag a handcart and hawk glass jars (racks and racks): agar-agar — dammar lac and balsam sap (half a franc, a flask)."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 20 May 19, 2010