Definition of "vulcanite" []

• A hard rubber produced by vulcanization. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The camera also sports a new easy-grip and specially robust "vulcanite" finish."
• "He rested himself against the wooden pillar of the veranda and took aim carefully; then, as he felt the hard vulcanite butt against his bare shoulder, he flinched."
• "LAMB: I wrote down a bunch of words that -- in reading about the rubber -- when you get past the latex, then you get to magnesia, and then you get to turpentine and lime and nitric acid and naphtha, urine, vulcanite."