English
Verb
gumming
- present participle of gum
Noun
gumming (plural gummings)
- 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.
- (mining, historical) The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.