gum digger

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noun

NZ a person who digs for fossilized kauri gum in a gum field

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Words nearby gum digger

gumbo-limbo, gumboot, gumboots, gumbotil, gum dammar, gum digger, gum digger's spear, gumdrop, gum elastic, gum elemi, gum eraser

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How to use gum digger in a sentence

In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
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White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.
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A “komitetchik par excellence,” a man of “outstanding mediocrity,” and “the grave digger of the revolution.”
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You go for your gold-digger lessons, then you go get waxed and tanned.
Russia’s Gold Digger Academy|Peter Pomerantsev|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?
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His drill-like nose, his powerful fore-legs and big, strong feet all served to make him the fastest digger in Pleasant Valley.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
No true worker, be he digger, or divine, blends real work with either smoking or drinking.
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We were on Blue Gum Ridge hunting squirrels, and we got to talking over one thing and another.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
Then rolling chewing-gum from one corner of his mouth into the other, he snapped off the electric light and walked from the room.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Gum is excreted from various plants as a thick fluid, which dries up into transparent masses.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry|Thomas Anderson