Gambier is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GAMBIER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the inspissated juice of a plant growing in Malacca, used for tanning and dyeing, also GAMBIA, GAMBIR
• an astringent extract of a tropical Asiatic plant, used in tanning.
• astringent resinous substance
• The inspissated juice of a plant (Uncaria Gambir) growing in Malacca. It is a powerful astringent, and, under the name of Terra Japonica, is used for chewing with the Areca nut, and is exported for tanning and dyeing.
• Catechu.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an extract obtained from an Asian vine

Words related to GAMBIER

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Words that contain GAMBIER

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How to use GAMBIER in a sentence

• After he passed the Gambier, wind and sea were ahead, his crew was short, and he was hard pressed to keep the engine going and watch the furnaces.
• That island is in the Gambier group, and a number of Europeans live there.
• This group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is formed of sixty groups of islands, among which the Gambier group is remarkable, over which France exercises sway.
• INSTRUCTIONS AFTER TRAFALGAR 321 Admiral Gambier, 1807 327 Lord Collingwood, 1808-1810 328 Sir Alexander Cochrane, 1805-14 330 5.
• So far all is plain, but when we endeavour to understand by the appended instruction what battle formation Gambier intended by his elaborate organisation it is very baffling.
• Soon after he received leave of absence, and he resigned the command of his squadron to Rear-admiral Gambier.
• Cochrane tried to whip the muddy-spirited Gambier into enterprise by emphatic and quick-following signal.
• Gambier finally despatched a single mortar-vessel in to bombard the stranded ships, but by this time Cochrane had become desperate.
• He drifted with his solitary frigate down to the hostile fleet and batteries, which Gambier thought it scarcely safe to attack with eleven ships of the line.
• The last hundred feet was the river Gambier, over which Patching had introduced a sunrise of the most gorgeous description, at the earnest request of Wesley Tiffles.
• There are some pepper plantations in addition, and they have been found to answer very well without any gambier being cultivated with them.
• A gambier and pepper plantation is valued or estimated at about 400 dollars on an average.
• The exhaustion of the trees by yearly consumption deprives the planters of the necessary fire wood which is used for the boiling down of the gambier.
• A gambier plantation gets exhausted in fifteen years, either from the want of firewood or the land getting impoverished.
• They are raised from seed, and are topped to eight or ten feet, when the gambier is to be prepared.
• The gambier plant is propagated either by seeds or cuttings, but the latter are preferred.
• After that of Rhio, the next best gambier is that of Lingin.
• The workmen who clean the plantation always receive a dollar less than those who cut and boil the gambier.
• EXPORTS OF GAMBIER FROM SINGAPORE, WITH THE OFFICIAL VALUE IN RUPEES.

Similar words containing GAMBI without suffix er

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