gum

noun10

1. •
   Chewing gum.
2. •
   [in the plural] The flesh around the teeth.
3. •
   a small piece of soft sweet stuff that people bite on for a long time but do not eat

   • Do you have a gum to spare?
4. •
   A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
5. •
   Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.

   • […] becoomed wi' the gum o' the coal-hill […] — 1833
6. •
   A gum tree.
7. •
   [in the plural] (South-Africa) A gummi candy.
8. •
   (dialect, US) A rubber overshoe.
9. •
   (dialect, US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
10. •
    (dialect, US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.

verb6

1. •
   To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.

   • However, Albert said in his audiotape and in his speech that a lever designed to release the lifeboat's block and tackle was gummed up with red paint. — 2012
2. •
   To stiffen with glue or gum.

   • He frets like a gummed velvet. — 1597
3. •
   (informal) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.

   • That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.
   • The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.
4. •
   To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
5. •
   To inelegantly attach into a sequence.

   • It consists in gumming together long strips of words [that] have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. — 1946
6. •
   To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of genitourinary medicine.