kaingin
nounDefinition of kaingin
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: swidden some lonely farmer hewing out a kaingin in the jungle— Wallace Stegner
kaingin
adjectiveDefinition of kaingin (Entry 2 of 2)
: 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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