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indiarubber

indiarubber

See also: india rubber and India rubber

English

Noun

indiarubber (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of india rubber
    • a. 1875, Charles Kingsley, Scientific Essays and Lectures:
      It cannot harm you, if you take, as beetle-hunters do, an indiarubber sheet to lie on; and it will certainly benefit science.
    • 1898, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll:
      The eyebrows were of worsted and indiarubber knitted together.
    • 1910, George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance:
      I tried exercises with an indiarubber expander; but I wasnt strong enough: instead of my expanding it, it crumpled me up.