Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
RUBBERS
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rubbers
plural of rubber
Noun
rubbers
(obsolete) Rubber overshoes; galoshes.
A disease of sheep, with great heat and itchiness.
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RUBBER
Rub"ber, n.
1. One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically: (a) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. (b) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file. (c) A whetstone; a rubstone. (d) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc. (e) The cushion of an electrical machine. (f) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath. (g) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. Thackeray.
2. In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. Beaconsfield. "A rubber of cribbage." Dickens.
3. India rubber; caoutchouc.
4. An overshoe made of India rubber. [Colloq.] Antimony rubber, an elastic durable variety of vulcanized caoutchouc of a red color. It contains antimony sulphide as an important constituent.
– Hard rubber, a kind of vulcanized caoutchouc which nearly resembles horn in texture, rigidity, etc.
– India rubber, caoutchouc. See Caoutchouc.
– Rubber cloth, cloth covered with caoutchouc for excluding water or moisture.
– Rubber dam (Dentistry), a shield of thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the tooth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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