indiarubber

See also: india rubber and India rubber

English

Noun

indiarubber (uncountable)

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.

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