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gum-stick
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a stick of pine saturated with pitch or gum (def. 1), carried on the trail for kindling campfires.
See: gum ((n.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1867
The best material I have ever met for kindling a fire, is known to the fur-traders . . . as gum-stick; nearly every Indian Tribe employs it.