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Definition of Erasers

1. eraser [n] - See also: eraser

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erasers

Literary usage of Erasers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. School Management: Including a Full Discussion of School Economy, School by Albert Newton Raub (1882)
"erasers.—If possible, a sufficient number of erasers should be furnished to ... These erasers may be made of bits of sheepskin, of blocks covered with ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"Instead of a diamond effect, as touches, which do with the 0 crayon and nigro- vine erasers, softening the lights and shadows into each other until the ..."

3. Simplified Library School Rules: Card Catalog, Accession, Book Numbers by Melvil Dewey (1898)
"Avoid holders with metal next the fingers 6ie erasers. ... Circular or obliquely cut bar erasers are best as their sharp edge admits application to a ..."

4. The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological by John Livesy Ridgway, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1920)
"RUBBER erasers AND CLEANERS. Two kinds of rubber erasers are usually employed in making erasures on drawings—a hard, dense rubber like the " Ruby," and a ..."

5. Healthful schools by May Ayres Burgess, Jesse Feiring Williams, Thomas Denison Wood (1918)
"If erasers must be ... attachment with a long narrow opening can easily be provided in the basement by means of which the janitor can clean all erasers. ..."

6. Elements of Mechanical Drawing: Their Application and a Course in Mechanical by Alpha Pierce Jamison (1904)
"erasers.—In constructing a drawing a large number of pencil-lines are drawn which ... An outfit should contain at least two erasers: (i) a pencil eraser, ..."

7. Wisconsin Journal of Educationby Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1884)
"erasers, etc., etc. AGENTS WANTED. CHICAGO. TEACHERS' AGENCY TIMES BUILDING, CHICAGO, ... erasers ..."

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