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Word Meanings - BURNISHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.

Related words: (words related to BURNISHER)

  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • ROUNDWORM
    A nematoid worm.
  • STEELHEAD
    A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
  • RUBBLEWORK
    Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • STEELINESS
    The quality of being steely.
  • ROUNDISH
    Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
  • SURFACE LOADING
    The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • ROUNDFISH
    Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • ROUND-UP
    The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
  • VARIETY SHOW
    A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
  • RUBBIDGE
    Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
  • SMOOTH-CHINNED
    Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
  • ROUNDSMAN
    A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
  • SMOOTHLY
    In a smooth manner.
  • POLISHED
    Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
  • CARBON STEEL
    Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • UNSTEEL
    To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • GAGATE
    Agate. Fuller.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • LOW STEEL
    See LOW
  • GROUNDEN
    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • NICKEL STEEL
    A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.

 

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