Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A disease in sheep characterized by heat and itching. Also called scab, shab, or ray.
- Same as
rubber , 4 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
rubber . - noun obsolete
rubber overshoes ,galoshes .
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Examples
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There's a funny scene in The Summer of '42 where teenage boys try to buy rubbers from a suspicious druggist.
April 2005 2005
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The pedestrians were sombrely garbed, and went about in "rubbers" -- the most depressing of all articles worn by man.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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The pedestrians were sombrely garbed, and went about in "rubbers" -- the most depressing of all articles worn by man.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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The pedestrians were sombrely garbed, and went about in "rubbers" -- the most depressing of all articles worn by man.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909
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"Don't be fooled by English English," advised Columbia: "the accent is like a mouthful of pudding, and when they mean to say the weather is bad they say it is 'nawsty;' they call their rubbers 'galoshes,' their dépôts 'stations,' and when they start on a journey they get their
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He would fain have carried us first to bathe in the bagnios of the cardin-hawks, which are goodly delicious places, and have us licked over with precious ointments by the alyptes, alias rubbers, as soon as we should come out of the bath.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He would fain have carried us first to bathe in the bagnios of the cardin-hawks, which are goodly delicious places, and have us licked over with precious ointments by the alyptes, alias rubbers, as soon as we should come out of the bath.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"Of course in US that's a contraceptive, they call rubbers erasers, and so the class erupted, 'Eddie wants a rubber!
unknown title 2009
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Next in importance to the rubbers are the glass jars you use.
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
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These fields furnish many sorts of bricks, which are called rubbers, and which are employed
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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