eraser

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He was oppressed by the magnitude of the ruin he left behind: the peaceful student to whom the pencil and the eraser were alone familiar had handled firearms like "the professor" in a shooting gallery.

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  1. noun One that erases, especially an implement, such as a piece of rubber or a pad of felt, used for erasing marks made by pencil or chalk.

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  • His years as a writer had taught him that there was always a way out: an eraser, a bottle of Wire-out, a delete command, a hundred last-minute ways to drag the Cavalry over the hill to the rescue. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 01 - July 1994
  • No matter how insignificant the object seemed - an eraser, a sticker, a pen - kids seemed to want it. —  Home
  • McMakin is responsible for the oversize typewriter eraser, ampersand and concrete benches in Seattle's Olympic Scuplture Park, and the house he designed for k.d. lang's personal manager is no less an installation art piece. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • FOR-A will introduce a real-time video noise eraser, the DNE-2, which uses the Japanese manufacturer's best image processing technology to remove noise-filled signals from the picture without harming the quality of the original video. —  B&C - Breaking News
  • An eraser, your pencils, of course, a sheet of cartridge paper and some mounting board. —  Article Source
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