kaingin

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noun

ka·​ing·​in

variants or less commonly caingin or caiñgin

käˈēŋə̇n

plural -s

Philippines

: swidden

some lonely farmer hewing out a kaingin in the jungle

—Wallace Stegner

kaingin

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adjective

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variants or less commonly caingin or caiñgin

Philippines

: employing a technique of clearing land by slashing and burning underbrush and trees and plowing the ashes under for fertilizer

well-known kaingin system which has been enormously destructive of valuable timber

—A. L. Kroeber

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Tagalog kaingin

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