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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of vulcanise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)

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Examples

  • Paul loves fake snow lawns, arcs of twinkling lights, pulsating 100-watt stars of Bethlehem, vulcanised rubber magi scenes and the yuletide honk of a thousand car horns passing by, their drivers gawping and muttering, "Jesus, it that a Ferris Wheel?"

    King Of Christmas Lights: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • I stripped off my overcoat, snapped the vulcanised neck and wrist cuffs of the tanned twill and rubber suit I was wearing beneath it, slipped an oxygen apparatus over my shoulders, tightened the straps, took the nose and eye piece in one hand and coat, pants and hat under the other arm and stepped gingerly over the side into the rubber raft the crew had already slipped over the side.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

  • In it he placed a round disc of vulcanised rubber, with insulated wires leading down back of the baseboard, then out underneath it, and under the carpet.

    The Poisoned Pen 1908

  • Kennedy was digging into the wall with a bill file at the place where he had buried the little vulcanised disc.

    The Poisoned Pen 1908

  • He unwrapped a little package and took out a round, flat disc-like thing of black vulcanised rubber.

    The Silent Bullet 1908

  • To the back of the reflector Craig attached two other flexible wires which led to a couple of dry cells and a cylinder with a broadened end, made of vulcanised rubber.

    The Poisoned Pen 1908

  • They had lace curtains in their front parlour windows, and outside of the curtains were large red and yellow pots of artificial flowers and indestructible palms and vulcanised rubber-plants.

    The Blue Flower 1902

  • They had lace curtains in their front parlour windows, and outside of the curtains were large red and yellow pots of artificial flowers and indestructible palms and vulcanised rubber-plants.

    The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • I shall break the amber stem, sooner or later, but I shall have it replaced by one of vulcanised rubber, and shall continue to cherish the gift though _mutatus ab illo_.

    The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M��ller Hopkins 1890

  • Immediately under the bulb was placed my naked hand resting on a photographic slide containing a sensitive bromide plate covered with a plate of vulcanised fibre.

    The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889

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