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Definition of Dammer
1. Noun. A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea and Symplocus of the Dipterocarpaceae family, used in varnishes and inks ¹
2. Noun. Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (pine family), Balanocarpus and Hopea, native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dammer
1. dammar [n -S] - See also: dammar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dammer
Literary usage of Dammer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"White dammer, a product of this tree, occurs in fragments of variable size, ...
dammer is found adhering to the branches, or in masses at the ..."
2. Report by Dr. M.C. Cooke, on the Gums, Resins, Oleo-resins, and Resinous by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1874)
"I send you specimens of the bark as well as of the black dammer taken " by me
... The hill men to get the dammer make a great " number of vertical cuts into ..."
3. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"(NO Coniferae), has been given, and this furnishes the 'East India dammer' of
English varnish- makers. In Burma the dammer used is derived from at least ..."
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