eraser dust

noun

The small curls of rubber that are left behind after using an eraser.

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Meanings

nouneraser dust (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe small curls of rubber that are left behind after using an eraser.

    Danny brushed away the eraser dust, but he could see no trace of what he had erased.

    2011, John Ames, Adventures in Nowhere, →ISBN, page 210
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    The brush is needed to whisk eraser dust away. The chief advantage of this eraser is that it may be sharpened to a point to erase a very small area.

    1989, Webster's New World Secretarial Handbook, →ISBN, page 59

    It self-cleanses when you knead it with your fingers and leaves your work space free of eraser dust.

    1999, Rachel Rubin Wolf, Keys to Painting - Fur & Feathers, →ISBN, page 22

    The stuff that was really valuable came from rare eraser colors. Teal or lime green, for example, were particularly hot in third grade. And orange eraser dust? Don't get me started. I would've traded gold bars for orange eraser dust.

    2010, Sarah Cunningham, Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life's Weeds, →ISBN, page 65
  2. uncountableA finely powdered plastic that is used to clean smudges from pencil drawings.

    One way to help prevent excess graphite from smearing is through the use of eraser dust. Eraser dust can be purchased in a shaker can or in a cleaning pad.

    2012, Dennis Dorn, Mark Shanda, Drafting for the Theatre, →ISBN, page 34
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    Eraser dust, which can be purchased or made by the conservator by grating an eraser, is sprinkled on a very small section of the area to be cleaned and gently rubbed with a brush.

    1988, The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin

    Eraser dust, a commercially manufactured fine, eraser residue, often is used by draftspersons to keep the drawing free from the inevitable smudges caused when triangles and T squares pick up minute amounts of lead residue and spread it onto other parts of the surface.

    1990, Dennis J. Sporre, Robert C. Burroughs, Scene design in the theatre, page 152
  3. uncountablecomputingA font that simulates wide hand-drawn letters with a slightly mottled appearance and irregular edges.

    The handwritten, chalkboard type is called eraser dust.

    2004, Maria Nerius, Digital Scrapbooking, →ISBN, page 75
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    He is also known for designing dozens of graphic fonts during the early 1990s such as Dragonwick, Dupuy, Eraser Dust, Pixie Font, Polo Semi-Script, Rabbit Bars, and Hosting, to name only a few.

    2011, James Michael Floyd, Composers in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 238

    The moment Kelly noel saw the eraser dust font at Dafont.com, she knew it would be perfect for a page about her sons playing with chalk on the driveway.

    2011, Scrapbook Tips & Techniques - Book 2, →ISBN, page 80

Translations

Japanese 消しカス
  • 消しカス (keshikasu)curls of rubber
Korean 지우개 가루, 지우개똥
  • 지우개 가루 (jiugae garu)curls of rubber
  • 지우개똥 (jiugaettong)curls of rubber
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