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ka·ing·in
variants:
or less commonly caingin or caiñgin \ käˈēŋə̇n \
plural -s
Definition of kaingin
(Entry 1 of 2)
Philippines
: swidden some lonely farmer hewing out a kaingin in the jungle— Wallace Stegner
kaingin
adjective\ " \
variants:
or less commonly caingin or caiñgin
Definition of kaingin (Entry 2 of 2)
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
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