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1820 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Jan. 216 [They] have regarded the bladder as a lifeless receptacle into which, as into an India rubber bottle, almost any solvent might be injected with impunity.

1828 J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers iv. 232 If on the contrary, she vouchsafed them an outline like a dumpling, it is proper and indispensable to dance, bounce, skip and curvet, like an India rubber ball.

1834 Sci. Tracts & Family Lyceum 15 Feb. 108 We doubt not the India Rubber bed will soon be classed with those essential articles of necessity.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiv. 375 There was one young gentleman in an India-rubber cloak.

1843 J. C. Frémont Rep. 23 Aug. in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I The India-rubber boat was filled with air, placed in the water, and loaded.

1854 Yankee Notions Dec. 379 Took the certificate out of the india-rubber band, and walked right down to Wall Street.

1885 P. G. Tait Properties of Matter xi. §224 The pulling out of an india-rubber band is almost entirely due to change of form.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 563 When the whole of the wall of the stomach is affected, it forms what is known as the india-rubber bottle stomach.

1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 812/3 Indiarubber rings. For use on hockey sticks.

1970 A. K. Armah Fragments ii. 31 Juana just had the time to see a small india-rubber ball bounce swiftly across the road in front of the Shell tanker.

1990 J. D. Barrow Theories of Everything (1991) iv. 79 The elasticity of each smoke-ring seemed no further from perfection than might be expected in a solid india-rubber ring of the same shape.

2007 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Nov. a19 Pretending I was Nancy Drew worked until an India rubber ball ricocheted off my daydreaming head.