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Definition of gumdigging in English: gumdiggingnounˈɡʌmdɪɡɪŋ mass nounNZ historical The activity of digging for kauri gum. gumdigging played an important role in the local economy Example sentencesExamples - Many of these were cut down and moved away and then farming and gum digging became the major sources of employment.
- Forest had been burnt to clear land for farming and gumdigging.
- The migrants were mostly men in their teens who came out to New Zealand to make their fortune in what is generally referred to as 'gumdigging', now a historical profession.
- His source material was Tupu's journal entries - taking in his early adult forays into gum digging, breeding horses, and whaling.
- "Biological gum spear" is a reference I hadn't heard before but it cleverly ties together the Dalmatian history of gum digging in the north with rooting.
- Gumdigging was the principal occupation.
- Our shared Dalmatian ancestry reminded me of our gumdigging forebears who fled the hardship of the Austrian empire for freedom and opportunity in a new land.
- Here you've got archaic sites that go back to the earliest time of human settlement, right up to archaeological remains of industries like gumdigging.
- Gumdigging helped to sustain small village settlements.
- They would make one class of land which is only suitable for gumdigging, and make it available to gumdiggers.
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