n. A person who rubs, or who practises rubbing of any kind as a business, as one employed in rubbing or polishing stone, one who attends and rubs down horses (as those used for racing), one who practises massage, etc.n. An instrument, substance, or stuff used for rubbing, or cleaning or polishing by friction.n. A piece of caoutchouc used to erase pencil-marks from paper, etc. From this, the first use to which caoutchouc was put, it came to be called rubber, or India rubber (now india-rubber). See def. 3.n. A brush consisting of wool, felt, chamois-skin, or other substance fastened to a back, used for erasing chalk from a blackboard or slate.n. In stone-work: An implement used in grinding or polishing. In the moldings of stone, an iron rubber mounted on a wooden stock is employed for fillets, beads, and astragals. These rubbers have convex or concave faces, according to the required contour of the work. A stone or wooden block covered with thick felt is used for polishing stone and marble. E. H. Knight. An implement for polishing marble, consisting of a mass of rags compressed by screws in an iron frame.n. A tool for rubbing or flattening down the seams of a sail in sail-making.n. The cushion of an electric machine, by friction against which the plate becomes charged with one kind of electricity and the rubber with the opposite kind. The rubber is made of horsehair, and covered with leather overlaid with a metallic preparation, sometimes consisting of the bisulphid of tin, or an amalgam, usually of zinc, tin, and mercury.n. A whetstone, rubstone, or rubbing-stone.n. A coarse file, or the rough part of it.n. A device for applying French polish to furniture, etc. It consists of a small ball of wadding covered with a linen rag. This is saturated with the varnish, and then covered with another rag moistened with oil. The varnish oozes gradually through the outside rag as the rubber is passed over the work with a uniform circular motion.n. A grinding or abrading agent, as emery-cloth or glass-paper for surfacing plates.n. The part of a wagon-lock which presses against the wheels.n. India-rubber; caoutchouc. See def. 2 , and india-rubber.n. Something made partly or wholly of india-rubber or caoutchouc.n. An inequality of the ground in a bowling-green; a rub; hence, obstruction; difficulty; unpleasant collision in the business of life.n. plural In the game of bowls, a contact or collision of two bowls.n. A limited series of games, usually three, as at whist, in which the contest is decided by the winning of the greater number of games; also, the decisive game in such a series.Made of caoutchouc or india-rubber; having caoutchouc as the principal component.Caoutchouc in sheets.n. n. n. See the extract.n. The substance obtained by the coagulation of the latex of Hevea Brasiliensis, wherever grown. This is known commercially as cultivated Para. See Ceylon rubber.n. See rubber shoddy.n. One who turns around to see something; one who gazes or looks out eagerly: often used as an exclamation in mockery of one who turns to look at something.To turn around to see something; to look out or about in an eager or awkward manner; in general, to look about.To listen when others are talking through the telephone (on party lines).
