gumming
noun/ˈɡʌmɪŋ/
1
The act of chewing without teeth.
- We give teething babies ABC books made of materials that can withstand repeated gummings.1994, Don Byrd, The Poetics of the Common Knowledge, page 201:
2
Business, Mining Historical The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
3
The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
4
Synonym of gummosis (“plant disease”).