frankum n
   1840 ENGLAND MS Journal 9 Feb Before I entered upon the morning sermon I desired the 'frankum' chewers, with whom I have often been disgusted, to lay it aside. 1981 SPARKES 36 From any little scar in the bark [of the red spruce], a gum exudes which hardens on exposure to the air. Those hardened blobs melt to proper chewing consistency when held in one's mouth and make the finest, certainly the purest, chewing-gum in the world. First, when you get it started, it is a creamy yellow, but when chewed for a while it turns pink. 1985 NEWHOOK 102 Then early one morning, unannounced, [father] would return [from the lumber woods] bearing presents of tins of 'frankum,' which is the sap of the spruce tree coagulated into hard pink knobs on the bark. We chewed it for gum and loved it.

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