kaingin
ka·ing·in [ "]
variants: or less commonly caingin or caiñgin
variants: or less commonly caingin or caiñgin \ käˈēŋə̇n \
Philippines
: swidden some lonely farmer hewing out a kaingin in the jungle— Wallace Stegner 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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