Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trade-name for an imitation of vulcanite or vulcanized rubber.

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Examples

  • He added in a warning tone, "It is essential that every man be dressed in a rubberite suit and wear rubberite gloves and shoes."

    The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950

  • Little tendrils of the pretty flame reared up hungrily a few inches from his rubberite suit, as if baffled by some invisible force protecting the suit.

    The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950

  • Some epiphanic moment spawns a rubberite here, a frottage enthusiast there, our sexual selves becoming all this and more, greater than the sum of their, or anybody else's, parts.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • Some epiphanic moment spawns a rubberite here, a frottage enthusiast there, our sexual selves becoming all this and more, greater than the sum of their, or anybody else's, parts.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • 154 Blue Adept Maybe if it were painted on a rubberite sheet, which sheet was stretched-ahal A curved surfacel Noh had not speci - fied a flat surface.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

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