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Definition of Rubber eraser
1. Noun. An eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubber Eraser
Literary usage of Rubber eraser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry (1885)
"The knife-eraser is provided with a cylindrical head by means of which it is
fixed within the upper end of the ink- pad shell, and the ruBber eraser is ..."
2. Patentable Invention by Edward Sabine Renwick (1893)
"... and in like manner the holder connects the lead and the rubber eraser so that
these three are combined in one compound implement or machine. ..."
3. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"To erase pencil-lines: Remove as much lead as possible by rubbing bread-crumbs
on the paper; then use an edge of the rubber eraser—a sharp wedge-shaped ..."
4. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1889)
"Mr. Examiner Clark then said : "The following facts appear:" 1. Gray applied
September, 1856; claimed broadly combination of rubber eraser with ..."
5. Topographical Drawing and Sketching, Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1888)
"To erase pencil-lines: Remove as much lead as possible by rubbing bread-crumbs
on the paper; then use an edge of the rubber eraser—a sharp wedge-shaped ..."
6. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"Place the plate on the standard, so that th« end of the tube is just over the
rubber eraser. Holding the upper end of the tube in one hand, rub it gently up ..."
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