2. Noun. (obsolete) rubber overshoes, galoshes. ¹
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Definition of Rubbers
1. rubber [v] - See also: rubber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubbers
Literary usage of Rubbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rubber by Philip Schidrowitz (1911)
"Such rubbers are, as a rule, relatively poor merely on account of improper methods of
... PHYSICAL CONDITION OF COMMERCIAL rubbers While the chemical ..."
2. A Treatise on Frictional Electricity, in Theory and Practice: In Theory and by William Snow Harris (1867)
"The preparation of the cushions or rubbers with the silk flap in the ... In the
machine now under consideration, the rubbers may be in length about ..."
3. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny (1863)
"Type rubbers and Setters. At P. & Co.'s, I saw the whole process of type making.
... The rubbers are paid by the pound, and earn from $8 to $9 a week. ..."
4. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Walter Rogers Johnson (1849)
"A slow traverse of the rotary rubbers Q, in the carriage e, e, e, e, ... By this
arrangement the rubbers of both machines can be arranged to act together ..."
5. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1884)
"PROBABILITY OF WINNING OR LOSING ANY NUMBER OF rubbers AT WHIST, OUT OF A CERTAIN
SERIES. THIS is one of the most interesting applications of the formula in ..."
6. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work. By Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny (1863)
"Type rubbers and Setters. At P. & Co.'s, I saw the whole process of type making.
... The rubbers are paid by the pound, and earn from $8 to $9 a week. ..."
7. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1804)
"The rubbers (at the extremities which, toward the ax¡5, ... from the circular or
central piec of wood to the rubbers is 2-J- inches, to which extent the pia ..."
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