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‖ dammar|ˈdæmə(r)|
Also (? 5 dambre), 7–9 damar, 8–9 dammer.
[a. Malay damar resin, whence the botanial genus Dammara (family Coniferæ), the typical species of which, D. orientalis, yields the resin in Amboyna and the Moluccas.]
The name of various resins obtained from different trees growing in the East Indies, New Guinea, and New Zealand; esp. the cat's-eye resin (E. India dammar) from Dammara orientalis, used instead of pitch for caulking ships, etc., and the Kauri-gum from D. australis of New Zealand; both these are used for making varnish. white dammar, or dammar pitch, is obtained from Vateria indica; black dammar from Canarium strictum. (Also dammar-gum, dammar-resin, gum dammar.) Also (in full dammar pine, dammar tree), any tree yielding dammar resin.
[c1440Secrees 165 A dragme and a half of good muske, & a dragme of dambre, and þre dragmes of þe tree of aloes.] 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 37 The..Planks are sowed together..and calked with Dammar (a sort of Rosin taken out of the sea). 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xxxviii. 73 Damar, a Gum that is used for making Pitch and Tar for the Use of Shipping. 1805Trans. Soc. Encourag. Arts. XXIII. 412 Resins..called dammer in India..the produce of various trees. 1829J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 802 This genus [sc. Agathis] is formed of the Dammar Pines. 1832W. Roxburgh Flora Indica (ed. 2) II. 603 In the Bednore country, it is called the Dammar tree by the English, and blossoms during the hot season. 1846Lindley Veg. Kingd. 229 Liquid storax is thought to be yielded by the Dammar Pine. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 347 The Canarum strictum, or black dammer tree. 1892R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 130 He has taken my bale of dammer and spice I won beyond the seas. 1959J. C. T. Uphof Dict. Economic Plants 12/1 Agathis alba Foxw. (syn. Dammara alba Lam.). White Dammar Pine. |