Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Apparatus used in vulcanizing indiarubber. Also spelled vulcaniser.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The equipment used for the vulcanization of rubber
  • noun A substance (such as sulfur) added to rubber during this process

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency

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Examples

  • When the goods are cured steam is blown off, the vulcanizer opened and the cloths are removed.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • But it has come to be a sort of vulcanizer, to make plain English, irony.

    The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Mysterious objects stood about him in the grey twilight; electric batteries, old bicycles and typewriters, a machine for making cement fence-posts, a vulcanizer, a stereopticon with a broken lens.

    III. Book One: On Lovely Creek 1922

  • Mysterious objects stood about him in the grey twilight; electric batteries, old bicycles and typewriters, a machine for making cement fence-posts, a vulcanizer, a stereopticon with a broken lens.

    One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • The vulcanizer was accused by the suspects of having the effrontery to place an orange laced with nails on the road to frustrate their activities in the area hence they organized and kidnaped him to teach him the lesson of his life.

    Vanguard johnabayomi 2010

  • But in an interview, the six suspects denied the allegation saying that they had a misunderstanding with the vulcanizer and he reported them to the police and they found themselves being paraded as kidnappers

    Vanguard johnabayomi 2010

  • TCR75S is a silicone thermally conductive rubber RTV (room temperature vulcanizer), for use on PCBs to conduct heat away from heat generating components.

    LEDs Magazine Products 2009

  • Titanic the manichean of the vulcanizer, abstractly unassumingly localism zirconium and biochemist growling, the predictive scree of the holocephali. sloganeer nodding is a new unlabelled navy that is erythematous to sleeveless idling.

    Rational Review 2009

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