English

Noun

indiarubber ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of india rubber
   • a. 1875, Charles Kingsley, Scientific Essays and Lectures:

     It cannot harm you, if you take, as beetle-hunters do, an indiarubber sheet to lie on; and it will certainly benefit science.

   • 1898, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll:

     The eyebrows were of worsted and indiarubber knitted together.

   • 1910, George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance:

     I tried exercises with an indiarubber expander; but I wasnt strong enough: instead of my expanding it, it crumpled me up.