rubber

RUBBER

One who rubs tritor (e.g. of paint etc.): fricator (of the body; late).

A cloth used in rubbing *linum ad detergendum or abstergendum factum.

A coarse file scobina (Plin.); lima crassa aspera (Jan.).

Indian rubber *gummi elasticum.

To win a rubber *ludo bis vincere. To play a rubber ludere.

rubber:

I. A whetstone: cos, cōtis, f.: Plin. 36, 22, 47.

II. A rough towel:

1. linteum villosum, Mart. 14, 138.

2. mappa: ib. 12, 29. 4.

3. extermentarium: Varr. L. L. 5, 21.

III. A man who rubs:

1. ăliptes, ae: Juv 3, 75.

2. frĭcātor: Coel. Aur Tard. 3, 7.

IV. At play: *victoria in certamine ternario bis parta.