India rubbern.

Brit.

/ˌɪndɪə ˈrʌbə/, U.S.

/ˌɪndiə ˈrəbər/

Forms: 1700s– India rubber, 1800s Inger rubber (nonstandard). Also with lower-case initial in the first element.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name India , rubber n.¹

Etymology: < the name of India (see India n.) + rubber n.¹, so called on account of its use in rubbing out lead pencil marks. Compare Indian rubber n., and also rubber n.¹ 13, 12a.

With varying word division and capitalization.

1. Natural rubber or caoutchouc, a polymerization product that is the coagulated latex of certain trees and other plants of South America, Africa, Indonesia, etc., which forms a highly elastic and flexible substance, used originally for rubbing out lead pencil marks and later for many other purposes (now largely replaced by synthetic rubbers). In later use shortened to rubber.The usual commercial source of natural rubber is the Para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis (family Euphorbiaceae), though many other plants have been used, e.g. the Indian rubber tree, Ficus elastica, and the Panama rubber tree, Castilla elastica (both of the family Moraceae).

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [noun]

caoutchouc1775

rubber1776

Indian rubber1783

gum elastic1803

India rubber1812

natural rubber1862

latex1900

1782 Fortunate Sisters I. (front matter) An assortment of nearly 300 of the most popular plays and farces, a great variety of pamphlets and children's books, sponge, India rubber, walking sticks, &c.

1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 101 India Rubber is a substance which oozes out under the form of a vegetable milk, from incisions made in the Syringe Tree of Cayenne.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xv. 151 The unwonted lines..in Mr. Pickwick's clear and open brow, gradually melted away..like the marks of a black-lead pencil beneath the softening influence of India rubber.

1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. x. 122 It is a pleasant sight to see a party of natives setting out to gather India-rubber.

1876 F. Jenkin Bridges 290/1 All the pieces of India-rubber above the centre of the beam are then compressed.

1885 P. G. Tait Properties of Matter v. §99 The rapid passage of gases through unglazed pottery, sheet indiarubber, etc., shows the porosity of these bodies.

1912 Times 24 Apr. 25/1 Machinery is to be installed at the Manchester School of Technology for the purpose of practical instruction and research work on indiarubber.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) ii. xiii. 428 Yule's face, as of indiarubber, expanded further, and he was still more silent.

1971 Country Life 27 May 1318/3 Marine glue, a mixture of shellac and india rubber, such as was used on wooden ships.

2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 96/1 By the 1850s..emery was combined with shellac, sodium silicate, India rubber, and perhaps other combinations to form a grinding wheel.

2. An eraser made of India rubber; = rubber n.¹ 13.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > device for erasing > rubber

rubber1779

Indian rubber?1780

India rubber1784

ink-eraser1881

bungee1928

1784 Pennsylvania Packet 13 Mar. 3/3 (advt.) India Rubbers, very useful for erasing the marks of blacklead pencils.

1789 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 19 Nov. (2003) 165 I cannot use my India rubber to obliterate the traces of sorrow and disappointed affection your behaviour has left on my memory.

1801 Times 8 Apr. 2/1 (advt.) Drawing frames and boards, India rubbers, liquid colours for maps and painting on velvet.

1857 M. J. Holmes Meadow-Brook v Taking my India-rubber, I erased it [sc. the writing].

1910 ‘I. Hay’ in Granta 11 June He concluded by imploring me as a personal favour to purchase an india-rubber and erase the lot.

1954 G. Willans How to be Topp iv. 50 Look at wot Molesworth is doing behind his blotch, sir... He is cutting up his indiaruber [sic] sir in contravention of Skool Rule 66 (c) para 3.

2004 Times (Nexis) 12 June 31 Why do I have to make my cross with a stubby pencil, which would only need an India rubber to erase?

3. U.S. Chiefly in plural. A waterproof overshoe made of India rubber; = rubber n.¹ 14a(a). Now historical.Quot. 1825 may be an example of sense 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > overshoe > types of

pattenc1574

India rubber1825

foothold1851

storm rubber1895

toe-rubber1948

1825 National Advocate (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 2/3 He boarded the wreck of..‘William, of Plymouth’, a new vessel,..with a cargo of cotton, cocoa, hides and India rubbers.

1830 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 20 Mar. What gentleman loves a rainy day?..Not any one that we conceive except the vender of umbrellas and india-rubbers.

1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 357 Feet pinched with India-rubbers.

1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 502/2 He came up to Paris, at the age of twenty (in a threadbare overcoat and a pair of india-rubbers), to seek his literary fortune.

1917 M. K. Waddington My War Diary 357 I tried in vain to get a pair of india-rubbers but couldn't, and was very uncomfortable in my wet shoes.

1974 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 4 Apr. 27 The streets were reported to be so extremely muddy that if a lady went out shopping, she had to wear wooden boots or large India rubbers.

1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 May These journals set themselves up as guides to propriety and gentility, advising on such matters as..the wisdom of India rubbers for winter streets.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. With the sense ‘yielding India rubber’, as India rubber plant, India rubber tree, India rubber vine, etc.The name India rubber tree is sometimes used to refer specifically to Ficus elastica (cf. Indian rubber tree n. at Indian rubber n. Compounds 2).

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1815 F. P. Chaumeton Flore Médicale II. Pl. 93 Anglais India-Rubber Tree.

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. 143 The India-rubber fig..occurs in the deepest and hottest valleys.

1858 Cottage Gardener 14 Dec. 170/2 The shoots of a fine India-rubber plant.

1883 D. Morris Colony Brit. Honduras 74 Next to cacao, the most interesting plant found wild in the forests of British Honduras is the indiarubber-tree, called by the natives ‘Toonu’.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 87 The destruction of enormous tracts of india-rubber forest.

1905 H. W. Wack Story Congo Free State xxvi. 295 For extending agriculture and replanting India-rubber vines the sum of 1,373,932 francs was expended in 1903.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1453 Ficus elastica, the india-rubber tree,..was the commonest rubber-producing tree in India, but it is of little importance now.

1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xvii. 167 Useful cultivated plants of such diverse kind as the hemp, mulberry, fig, indiarubber fig and bread fruit.

1974 S. Clapham Greenhouse Bk. xv. 148 Ficus Several species in this Fig family have become popular as house plants, notably the Indiarubber Plant Ficus elastica..

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. Introd. p. i The India Rubber Plant, Ficus elastica, is singularly unsuited for indoor cultivation, being a large tree reaching over 100 ft. in height.

b. With the sense ‘made of India rubber’, as India rubber ball, India rubber band, India rubber bottle, etc.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [adjective]

India rubber1820

1820 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan. 216 [They] have regarded the bladder as a lifeless receptacle into which, as into an India rubber bottle, almost any solvent might be injected with impunity.

1828 J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers iv. 232 If on the contrary, she vouchsafed them an outline like a dumpling, it is proper and indispensable to dance, bounce, skip and curvet, like an India rubber ball.

1834 Sci. Tracts & Family Lyceum 15 Feb. 108 We doubt not the India Rubber bed will soon be classed with those essential articles of necessity.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiv. 375 There was one young gentleman in an India-rubber cloak.

1843 J. C. Frémont Rep. 23 Aug. in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I The India-rubber boat was filled with air, placed in the water, and loaded.

1854 Yankee Notions Dec. 379 Took the certificate out of the india-rubber band, and walked right down to Wall Street.

1885 P. G. Tait Properties of Matter xi. §224 The pulling out of an india-rubber band is almost entirely due to change of form.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 563 When the whole of the wall of the stomach is affected, it forms what is known as the india-rubber bottle stomach.

1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 812/3 Indiarubber rings. For use on hockey sticks.

1970 A. K. Armah Fragments ii. 31 Juana just had the time to see a small india-rubber ball bounce swiftly across the road in front of the Shell tanker.

1990 J. D. Barrow Theories of Everything (1991) iv. 79 The elasticity of each smoke-ring seemed no further from perfection than might be expected in a solid india-rubber ring of the same shape.

2007 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Nov. a19 Pretending I was Nancy Drew worked until an India rubber ball ricocheted off my daydreaming head.

c. With the sense ‘manufacturing India rubber’, as India rubber factory, India rubber works, etc.

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1835 Mechanics' Mag. 6 June 176/1 The boat..was manufactured at the India-rubber factory on Eddy's Point.

1847 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 31 307 The India-rubber Works, Broad-street, Birmingham.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 948 His experience was gained in the india-rubber works in Paris.

1930 Tyrone (Pa.) Daily Herald 23 June 2/3 It is bounded on the north by the gas works, on the south by an india-rubber works, on the east by a vinegar factory, and on the west there is a glue-boiling establishment.

1969 N.Y. Herald 23 Nov. 10/1 Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in the India Rubber Works of Messrs. L. Jay & Son.

2002 Express (Nexis) 14 June 9 My calamari were..[excellent]—unlike so many elsewhere, which seem to have been destined for an India rubber factory.

C2. attributive. In extended use, with the sense ‘resembling India rubber, highly elastic and flexible’.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > like rubber

India rubber1821

indiarubbery1857

rubbery1879

1821 H. C. Knight Poems (ed. 2) I. 166 Had she a clean, and strong-wove mind, With a temper of India-rubber kind?

1824 New Monthly Mag. 10 364 ‘The world’ is..one of those invaluable India-rubber phrases, the complaisant elasticity of which will accommodate itself to every possible intensity of signification.

1842 Times 25 Oct. 7/1 The colour is like that of a tench, and is of a perfectly Indiarubber texture.

1894 Daily News 1 Aug. 5/2 Mr. Morton coming up quite fresh with his indiarubber amendment applicable to the third in the list of Tramway Bills.

1900 Daily News 23 July 3/3 (heading) An indiarubber enemy.

1949 ‘M. Innes’ Journeying Boy vii. 78 Mr. Wambus..is known as the Great Elasto, the India-rubber Man.

1990 J. Bishop & M. Waldholz Genome x. 202 Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, the ‘India rubber man’ disorder in which the skin is remarkably elastic.

2000 Jazz Jrnl. Feb. 46/1 Pedersen's india-rubber bass manages to sing at even the fiercest tempi.

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a. Instrumental and parasynthetic. Now rare.

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1833 N.Y. Spectator 28 Oct. First premium for an India Rubber Covered Silk Cloak.

1835 Hull Packet 18 Dec. (advt.) Carey's Patent India-Rubber-Proofed Hat.

1853 C. Goodyear Applic. & Uses Vulcanized Gum-elastic II. iii. 59 These fabrics are..much more suitable..than the India rubber coated cloths that have been heretofore applied to this use.

1863 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 15 Oct. (advt.) Patent India Rubber Soled Balmoral Boots.

1882 Daily News 22 May 2/2 The ‘india-rubber-bodied’ style of entertainment, recently popularised by the Vokes' and the Girards.

1922 C. S. Robinson Recovery Volatile Solvents 166 The apparatus is suitable for india-rubber coated fabrics.

indiarubber tyred adj. now rare

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1870 Country Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 291/2 Mr Thomson's indiarubber tired engine.

1896 Daily News 23 May 6/3 The whole apparatus..is wheeled to the bedside on an indiarubber tyred trolly.

1905 Times 22 June 1/2 (advt.) Wooden-wheeled indiarubber tyred Broughams or Victorias by the week or month.

C4. Objective with agent nouns, verbal nouns and participles. Now rare.

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1851 Daily News 27 Sept. 8/6 (advt.) An India rubber cutting machine.

1855 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 2 408 The India-rubber collectors are denominated Seringueiros.

1870 Suppl. Courant (Hartford, Connecticut) 1 Jan. 5/3 The India-rubber hunters are gradually working their way over this divide.

1906 T. E. Herbert Telegraphy xxii. 759 The specific capacity of gutta-percha is 4.2, whilst that of india-rubber is about 2.94, and it would therefore appear preferable to use india-rubber-covered wires.

Derivatives

ˌIndia-ˈrubbered adj. now rare wearing India rubbers; (also) treated with India rubber, coated with a solution of India rubber.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [adjective] > treated or coated with rubber

India-rubbered1859

rubberized1876

frictioned1881

1859 Titan June 647/2 Respectable india-rubbered, water-and-tear-proof cloaked, thorough men of business.

1890 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (ed. 6) 176 An image in pigmented gelatine remains on the india-rubbered paper.

1913 ‘R. Dehan’ Headquarter Recruit iv. 48 A drum-shaped air-box of india-rubbered canvas.

ˌIndia ˈrubber-like adj. resembling India rubber.

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1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 266 His thick, dry, Indian rubber-like scoop of a tongue.]

1835 J. Doran Hist. & Antiq. Reading 257 The museum also possesses part of the India rubber-like skin of a rhinoceros.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Aug. 1/2 To cultivate a certain indiarubber-like forbearance and a cool temper.

1997 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 17 692/1 When the egg is first laid, it has a flexible india rubber-like stalk.

ˌindiaˈrubbery adj. resembling or having the consistency of India rubber.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > like rubber

India rubber1821

indiarubbery1857

rubbery1879

1857 N.-Y. Daily Times 18 Apr. 1/2 The seamed and knotted features of his venerable, but rather india rubbery face.

1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians iii. 28 Sheep's cheese is..elastic or indiarubbery in texture.

2003 Times (Nexis) 17 July ii. 9 The enlarged glands of Hodgkin's are painless and usually have what is described as an India-rubbery feel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	india rubber
释义	India rubbern. Brit. /ˌɪndɪə ˈrʌbə/, U.S. /ˌɪndiə ˈrəbər/ Forms: 1700s– India rubber, 1800s Inger rubber (nonstandard). Also with lower-case initial in the first element. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name India , rubber n.¹ Etymology: < the name of India (see India n.) + rubber n.¹, so called on account of its use in rubbing out lead pencil marks. Compare Indian rubber n., and also rubber n.¹ 13, 12a. With varying word division and capitalization. 1. Natural rubber or caoutchouc, a polymerization product that is the coagulated latex of certain trees and other plants of South America, Africa, Indonesia, etc., which forms a highly elastic and flexible substance, used originally for rubbing out lead pencil marks and later for many other purposes (now largely replaced by synthetic rubbers). In later use shortened to rubber.The usual commercial source of natural rubber is the Para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis (family Euphorbiaceae), though many other plants have been used, e.g. the Indian rubber tree, Ficus elastica, and the Panama rubber tree, Castilla elastica (both of the family Moraceae). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [noun] caoutchouc1775 rubber1776 Indian rubber1783 gum elastic1803 India rubber1812 natural rubber1862 latex1900 1782 Fortunate Sisters I. (front matter) An assortment of nearly 300 of the most popular plays and farces, a great variety of pamphlets and children's books, sponge, India rubber, walking sticks, &c. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 101 India Rubber is a substance which oozes out under the form of a vegetable milk, from incisions made in the Syringe Tree of Cayenne. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xv. 151 The unwonted lines..in Mr. Pickwick's clear and open brow, gradually melted away..like the marks of a black-lead pencil beneath the softening influence of India rubber. 1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. x. 122 It is a pleasant sight to see a party of natives setting out to gather India-rubber. 1876 F. Jenkin Bridges 290/1 All the pieces of India-rubber above the centre of the beam are then compressed. 1885 P. G. Tait Properties of Matter v. §99 The rapid passage of gases through unglazed pottery, sheet indiarubber, etc., shows the porosity of these bodies. 1912 Times 24 Apr. 25/1 Machinery is to be installed at the Manchester School of Technology for the purpose of practical instruction and research work on indiarubber. a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) ii. xiii. 428 Yule's face, as of indiarubber, expanded further, and he was still more silent. 1971 Country Life 27 May 1318/3 Marine glue, a mixture of shellac and india rubber, such as was used on wooden ships. 2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 96/1 By the 1850s..emery was combined with shellac, sodium silicate, India rubber, and perhaps other combinations to form a grinding wheel. 2. An eraser made of India rubber; = rubber n.¹ 13. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > device for erasing > rubber rubber1779 Indian rubber?1780 India rubber1784 ink-eraser1881 bungee1928 1784 Pennsylvania Packet 13 Mar. 3/3 (advt.) India Rubbers, very useful for erasing the marks of blacklead pencils. 1789 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 19 Nov. (2003) 165 I cannot use my India rubber to obliterate the traces of sorrow and disappointed affection your behaviour has left on my memory. 1801 Times 8 Apr. 2/1 (advt.) Drawing frames and boards, India rubbers, liquid colours for maps and painting on velvet. 1857 M. J. Holmes Meadow-Brook v Taking my India-rubber, I erased it [sc. the writing]. 1910 ‘I. Hay’ in Granta 11 June He concluded by imploring me as a personal favour to purchase an india-rubber and erase the lot. 1954 G. Willans How to be Topp iv. 50 Look at wot Molesworth is doing behind his blotch, sir... He is cutting up his indiaruber [sic] sir in contravention of Skool Rule 66 (c) para 3. 2004 Times (Nexis) 12 June 31 Why do I have to make my cross with a stubby pencil, which would only need an India rubber to erase? 3. U.S. Chiefly in plural. A waterproof overshoe made of India rubber; = rubber n.¹ 14a(a). Now historical.Quot. 1825 may be an example of sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > overshoe > types of pattenc1574 India rubber1825 foothold1851 storm rubber1895 toe-rubber1948 1825 National Advocate (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 2/3 He boarded the wreck of..‘William, of Plymouth’, a new vessel,..with a cargo of cotton, cocoa, hides and India rubbers. 1830 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 20 Mar. What gentleman loves a rainy day?..Not any one that we conceive except the vender of umbrellas and india-rubbers. 1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 357 Feet pinched with India-rubbers. 1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 502/2 He came up to Paris, at the age of twenty (in a threadbare overcoat and a pair of india-rubbers), to seek his literary fortune. 1917 M. K. Waddington My War Diary 357 I tried in vain to get a pair of india-rubbers but couldn't, and was very uncomfortable in my wet shoes. 1974 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 4 Apr. 27 The streets were reported to be so extremely muddy that if a lady went out shopping, she had to wear wooden boots or large India rubbers. 1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 May These journals set themselves up as guides to propriety and gentility, advising on such matters as..the wisdom of India rubbers for winter streets. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. With the sense ‘yielding India rubber’, as India rubber plant, India rubber tree, India rubber vine, etc.The name India rubber tree is sometimes used to refer specifically to Ficus elastica (cf. Indian rubber tree n. at Indian rubber n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1815 F. P. Chaumeton Flore Médicale II. Pl. 93 Anglais India-Rubber Tree. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. 143 The India-rubber fig..occurs in the deepest and hottest valleys. 1858 Cottage Gardener 14 Dec. 170/2 The shoots of a fine India-rubber plant. 1883 D. Morris Colony Brit. Honduras 74 Next to cacao, the most interesting plant found wild in the forests of British Honduras is the indiarubber-tree, called by the natives ‘Toonu’. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 87 The destruction of enormous tracts of india-rubber forest. 1905 H. W. Wack Story Congo Free State xxvi. 295 For extending agriculture and replanting India-rubber vines the sum of 1,373,932 francs was expended in 1903. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1453 Ficus elastica, the india-rubber tree,..was the commonest rubber-producing tree in India, but it is of little importance now. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xvii. 167 Useful cultivated plants of such diverse kind as the hemp, mulberry, fig, indiarubber fig and bread fruit. 1974 S. Clapham Greenhouse Bk. xv. 148 Ficus Several species in this Fig family have become popular as house plants, notably the Indiarubber Plant Ficus elastica.. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. Introd. p. i The India Rubber Plant, Ficus elastica, is singularly unsuited for indoor cultivation, being a large tree reaching over 100 ft. in height. b. With the sense ‘made of India rubber’, as India rubber ball, India rubber band, India rubber bottle, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [adjective] India rubber1820 1820 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan. 216 [They] have regarded the bladder as a lifeless receptacle into which, as into an India rubber bottle, almost any solvent might be injected with impunity. 1828 J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers iv. 232 If on the contrary, she vouchsafed them an outline like a dumpling, it is proper and indispensable to dance, bounce, skip and curvet, like an India rubber ball. 1834 Sci. Tracts & Family Lyceum 15 Feb. 108 We doubt not the India Rubber bed will soon be classed with those essential articles of necessity. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiv. 375 There was one young gentleman in an India-rubber cloak. 1843 J. C. Frémont Rep. 23 Aug. in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I The India-rubber boat was filled with air, placed in the water, and loaded. 1854 Yankee Notions Dec. 379 Took the certificate out of the india-rubber band, and walked right down to Wall Street. 1885 P. G. Tait Properties of Matter xi. §224 The pulling out of an india-rubber band is almost entirely due to change of form. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 563 When the whole of the wall of the stomach is affected, it forms what is known as the india-rubber bottle stomach. 1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 812/3 Indiarubber rings. For use on hockey sticks. 1970 A. K. Armah Fragments ii. 31 Juana just had the time to see a small india-rubber ball bounce swiftly across the road in front of the Shell tanker. 1990 J. D. Barrow Theories of Everything (1991) iv. 79 The elasticity of each smoke-ring seemed no further from perfection than might be expected in a solid india-rubber ring of the same shape. 2007 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Nov. a19 Pretending I was Nancy Drew worked until an India rubber ball ricocheted off my daydreaming head. c. With the sense ‘manufacturing India rubber’, as India rubber factory, India rubber works, etc. ΚΠ 1835 Mechanics' Mag. 6 June 176/1 The boat..was manufactured at the India-rubber factory on Eddy's Point. 1847 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 31 307 The India-rubber Works, Broad-street, Birmingham. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 948 His experience was gained in the india-rubber works in Paris. 1930 Tyrone (Pa.) Daily Herald 23 June 2/3 It is bounded on the north by the gas works, on the south by an india-rubber works, on the east by a vinegar factory, and on the west there is a glue-boiling establishment. 1969 N.Y. Herald 23 Nov. 10/1 Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in the India Rubber Works of Messrs. L. Jay & Son. 2002 Express (Nexis) 14 June 9 My calamari were..[excellent]—unlike so many elsewhere, which seem to have been destined for an India rubber factory. C2. attributive. In extended use, with the sense ‘resembling India rubber, highly elastic and flexible’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > like rubber India rubber1821 indiarubbery1857 rubbery1879 1821 H. C. Knight Poems (ed. 2) I. 166 Had she a clean, and strong-wove mind, With a temper of India-rubber kind? 1824 New Monthly Mag. 10 364 ‘The world’ is..one of those invaluable India-rubber phrases, the complaisant elasticity of which will accommodate itself to every possible intensity of signification. 1842 Times 25 Oct. 7/1 The colour is like that of a tench, and is of a perfectly Indiarubber texture. 1894 Daily News 1 Aug. 5/2 Mr. Morton coming up quite fresh with his indiarubber amendment applicable to the third in the list of Tramway Bills. 1900 Daily News 23 July 3/3 (heading) An indiarubber enemy. 1949 ‘M. Innes’ Journeying Boy vii. 78 Mr. Wambus..is known as the Great Elasto, the India-rubber Man. 1990 J. Bishop & M. Waldholz Genome x. 202 Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, the ‘India rubber man’ disorder in which the skin is remarkably elastic. 2000 Jazz Jrnl. Feb. 46/1 Pedersen's india-rubber bass manages to sing at even the fiercest tempi. C3. a. Instrumental and parasynthetic. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 N.Y. Spectator 28 Oct. First premium for an India Rubber Covered Silk Cloak. 1835 Hull Packet 18 Dec. (advt.) Carey's Patent India-Rubber-Proofed Hat. 1853 C. Goodyear Applic. & Uses Vulcanized Gum-elastic II. iii. 59 These fabrics are..much more suitable..than the India rubber coated cloths that have been heretofore applied to this use. 1863 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 15 Oct. (advt.) Patent India Rubber Soled Balmoral Boots. 1882 Daily News 22 May 2/2 The ‘india-rubber-bodied’ style of entertainment, recently popularised by the Vokes' and the Girards. 1922 C. S. Robinson Recovery Volatile Solvents 166 The apparatus is suitable for india-rubber coated fabrics. b. indiarubber tyred adj. now rare ΚΠ 1870 Country Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 291/2 Mr Thomson's indiarubber tired engine. 1896 Daily News 23 May 6/3 The whole apparatus..is wheeled to the bedside on an indiarubber tyred trolly. 1905 Times 22 June 1/2 (advt.) Wooden-wheeled indiarubber tyred Broughams or Victorias by the week or month. C4. Objective with agent nouns, verbal nouns and participles. Now rare. ΚΠ 1851 Daily News 27 Sept. 8/6 (advt.) An India rubber cutting machine. 1855 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 2 408 The India-rubber collectors are denominated Seringueiros. 1870 Suppl. Courant (Hartford, Connecticut) 1 Jan. 5/3 The India-rubber hunters are gradually working their way over this divide. 1906 T. E. Herbert Telegraphy xxii. 759 The specific capacity of gutta-percha is 4.2, whilst that of india-rubber is about 2.94, and it would therefore appear preferable to use india-rubber-covered wires. Derivatives ˌIndia-ˈrubbered adj. now rare wearing India rubbers; (also) treated with India rubber, coated with a solution of India rubber. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [adjective] > treated or coated with rubber India-rubbered1859 rubberized1876 frictioned1881 1859 Titan June 647/2 Respectable india-rubbered, water-and-tear-proof cloaked, thorough men of business. 1890 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (ed. 6) 176 An image in pigmented gelatine remains on the india-rubbered paper. 1913 ‘R. Dehan’ Headquarter Recruit iv. 48 A drum-shaped air-box of india-rubbered canvas. ˌIndia ˈrubber-like adj. resembling India rubber. ΚΠ 1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 266 His thick, dry, Indian rubber-like scoop of a tongue.] 1835 J. Doran Hist. & Antiq. Reading 257 The museum also possesses part of the India rubber-like skin of a rhinoceros. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Aug. 1/2 To cultivate a certain indiarubber-like forbearance and a cool temper. 1997 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 17 692/1 When the egg is first laid, it has a flexible india rubber-like stalk. ˌindiaˈrubbery adj. resembling or having the consistency of India rubber. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > like rubber India rubber1821 indiarubbery1857 rubbery1879 1857 N.-Y. Daily Times 18 Apr. 1/2 The seamed and knotted features of his venerable, but rather india rubbery face. 1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians iii. 28 Sheep's cheese is..elastic or indiarubbery in texture. 2003 Times (Nexis) 17 July ii. 9 The enlarged glands of Hodgkin's are painless and usually have what is described as an India-rubbery feel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1782
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