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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of guttapercha.

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Examples

  • These, twisted loosely into a small cable, are surrounded by repeated layers of gutta-percha, which is, in turn, covered with jute.

    Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

  • I love the signage from three different eras, and the erupting thick black wires that look like they've been dipped in gutta percha -- it's my favorite kind of London streetscene, walls that have been scarred and repurposed as the technologies of municipal living changed.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Gutta-percha impressions and electrotypes were finally created, the current lot being one of the rare original electrotypes.

    Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • Not gutta-percha, you understand, nor any cheap composition; but pure Para rubber of the best quality.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • In the sale is a gutta-percha ball made by famed Scottish golfer Willie Park Jr. around 1896.

    London Auctions Feature Classic Golf Memorabilia 2009

  • "Featheries" -- balls made from stitched leather stuffed with feathers -- were replaced by a smoother play with gutta-percha balls.

    London Auctions Feature Classic Golf Memorabilia 2009

  • It is almost enough to make me wish that the ghost of "Bully" Brooks would possess House Minority Leader John Boehner, who would then grab a gutta-percha cane, and mistaking Senator Lieberman for Charles Sumner, beat him half to death on the Senate Floor.

    Forcing Their Hand 2009

  • As Sumner began to stand up, Brooks began beating Sumner on the head with his thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head.

    Dan Manatt: South Carolinians Gone Wild: Wilson's Only the Latest ... 2009

  • The players took fistfulls of wet sand to build a little hill to elevate their balls made of gutta percha, a material from the rubbery dried sap of sapodilla trees.

    The Founding Fathers of Golf 2009

  • Gutta-percha impressions and electrotypes were finally created, the current lot being one of the rare original electrotypes.

    Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci : Coin Collecting News 2008

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