What does gum band mean?
Gum band means (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of rubber band..
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/ɡʌmbænd/ · noun
(Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of rubber band..
Some of the guns were made “automatic” by carving extra notches, making it possible to load two or three gumbands at a time. The epitome was the machine gun, a long board with five or six notches — a strip of cloth would be stretched over them, then the gumbands on top of it.
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Gum band means (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of rubber band..
Common synonyms include rubber band, rubber-band, rubberband.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some of the guns were made “automatic” by carving extra notches, making it possible to load two or three gumbands at a time. The epitome was the machine gun, a long board with five or six notches — a strip of cloth would be stretched over them, then the gumbands on top of it.
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