rubber

For example, they may use paddle pop sticks, hand span, pencils, rubbers, mathematics equipment (i.e. base 10 material) or anything else the teacher can find to measure the lengths of nominated objects.

And the rubbers you hide / In your top left pocket

I curl his perriwig, paint his cheeks, perfume his breath; I am his froterer or rubber in a hot-house

Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.

Johnny, don't forget your rubbers today.

Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.

The British barges, off New-London, sometimes meet with the rubbers. In an attack upon an armed smack, some days ago, they were beaten off, with the reported loss of 8 men killed.