gum elastic

American  

noun

1. rubber.

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gum elastic British  

noun

1. another name for rubber 1

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Etymology

Origin of gum elastic

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

A gum elastic pipe should be always used instead of the hard ivory tube.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas

It is hard like metal and as elastic as pure original gum elastic.

From The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Thompson, Holland

Elasticity -- N. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy. rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic. flexibility, Young's modulus.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Between the years 1831 and 1832 he began to hear about gum elastic and very carefully examined every article that appeared in the newspapers relative to this new material.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various

I likewise had orders to exchange my goods for hides, deer-skins, cochineal, gum elastic or India rubber, gum copal, cotton, fustic, sarsaparilla, &c.

From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Dunham, Jacob