Brickwork in particular was meticulously planned, with courses of headers and stretchers differentiated, and corbelled piers or rubbing-strips developed in both elevation and section.
Even the term "rubber" comes from one of the material's innumerable handy uses: rubbing out pencil marks.
Seeds from these species were removed from fruits manually, by rubbing on a rubber mat.
Damage types 7, 9 and 10 represent localized rubbing; damage type 8 depicts rubbing along the wing venation.
Alternatively, smear preparations were made by rubbing the cut surface of a fresh fluke over a microscope slide, air-drying and staining with orcein.
Rubbing the feeding membrane briefly with a sweaty sock did not make it significantly more attractive to mosquitoes than an untreated membrane (table 1).
Seeds were air-dried to a water content of 7-8% (dry weight basis), cleaned by rubbing and fanning, and hand-examined to ensure fill.
Presumably the pigments were dispersed through rubbing the suspended particles into the white ground.
