Definition of Gummers

1. Noun. (plural of gummer) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of gummer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gummers

1. gummer [n] - See also: gummer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gummers

gumlike
gumline
gumlines
gumma
gummas
gummata
gummatous
gummatous abscess
gummatous syphilid
gummatous ulcer
gummed
gummed label
gummered
gummering
gummers (current term)
gummi
gummi bear
gummi bears
gummier
gummies
gummiest
gummiferous
gummily
gumminess
gumminesses
gumming
gummings
gummite
gummites

Literary usage of Gummers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"Above such table rise the pickers or gummers С С', which serve to apply the gum ... The gummers or pickers С О are suspended from an arm D, extending from a ..."

2. Commercial Nomenclature by John K. Chandler, John C. Redman, Virginia H. Wood, Caroline S. Larner (1897)
"Gum Tragacanth. Gummed-Paper Letters and Figures. Gummer Cutters, Saw. gummers, Emery-Wheel. Saw. gummers and Filers, Saw. gummers, Saw. Gun. ..."

3. Joint Documents ... for the Year by Michigan Legislature (1896)
"Ordered blowers provided for the gummers. No. 368.—Ordered blowers provided for gummers. No. 371.—Required hood placed over the heading saw. No. 376. ..."

4. First-Fifth Annual Report of Inspection of Factories in Michigan by Michigan Bureau of labor and industrial statistics (1896)
"Ordered blowers provided for the gummers. No. 368.—Ordered blowers provided for gummers. No. 374.—Required hood placed over the heading saw. No. 376. ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"Upon this, I called to a peasant to inquire for gummers-ore, but when he came we could see nothing of it ; on which die peasant said, all was well, ..."

6. Time Study and Job Analysis as Applied to Standardization of Methods and by William Otto Lichtner (1921)
"Output of the gummers, total for the department and down time by per cent. ... If we get an immediate increase on the slitters, will the gummers take it up ..."

7. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1898)
"It is described by Yates as Mount Barnet, and shown as communicating with Coniston Old Man, gummers How, Ingleborough, Warton Crag, Lancaster Church, ..."

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