Brewer's: Rubber of Whist

(A). A game of cards called “whilst.” “Rubber” is transferred from bowls, in which the collision of two balls is a rubber, because they rub against each other.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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