eraser

[ ih-rey-ser ]

/ ɪˈreɪ sər /

noun

a device, as a piece of rubber or cloth, for erasing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, etc.

a person or thing that erases.

Words nearby eraser

era, eradiate, eradicable, eradicate, erase, eraser, erasing head, erasion, erasistratus, erasmian, erasmus

Origin of eraser

First recorded in 1780–90; erase + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for eraser

She won't listen to a word you say to her, and she makes me lend my eraser to everybody in school.
The Pansy Magazine, July 1886|Various
The drawing had been made with a hard pencil and the eraser had removed the lead, but a well-defined imprint remained.
The House of a Thousand Candles|Meredith Nicholson
The pencil is now ready for sale, but many people like to have an eraser in the end, and this requires still more work.
Makers of Many Things|Eva March Tappan
As its name implies, we find combined in the one tool an eraser, a blade, and a smoothing-tip fitted in the stem of the blade.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897|Various

The one finding the eraser on his seat rises and chases the leader.
My Book of Indoor Games|Clarence Squareman

British Dictionary definitions for eraser

eraser

/ (ɪˈreɪzə) /

noun

an object, such as a piece of rubber or felt, used for erasing something written, typed, etca pencil eraser

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