indiarubber

See also: india rubber and India rubber

English

Noun

indiarubber (countable and uncountable, plural indiarubbers)

  1. Alternative form of india rubber.
    • a. 1875, Charles Kingsley, Scientific Essays and Lectures‎[1]:
      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[2]:
      The eyebrows were of worsted and indiarubber knitted together.
    • 1910, George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance‎[3]:
      I tried exercises with an indiarubber expander; but I wasnt strong enough: instead of my expanding it, it crumpled me up.
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