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rubber eraser

n. an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil [syn: rubber, pencil eraser]

Usage examples of "rubber eraser".

There was a boy who used no canvas, but did something with bird cages and metronomes, and another who discovered a new technique of painting: he blackened a sheet of paper and then painted with a rubber eraser.

Miss Beaux went through an entire India rubber eraser as she worked away, and dulled a stack of heavy, soft-lead pencils.

She meant the red Chevy-an outdated model, big as a barge, its finish worn down to the color of a dull red rubber eraser.

The sound of a rubber eraser coming to rest after dropping off a desk in a very quiet room.

It consisted of oddments retrieved by one or more cats from the gaping closets of the Gage mansion: champagne cork, matchbook, pocket comb, small sponge, pencil stub, rubber eraser, and the like.

A patch of her throat had a minute roughness like the crumbs from a rubber eraser.