Brewer's: Vulcanised Indiarubber

India-rubber combined with sulphur by vulcanic agency or heat, by which means the caoutchouc absorbs the sulphur and becomes carbonised.

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