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emery cloth

noun

  1. emery-coated cloth used as an abrasive.


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But if not quite so exquisite a polish is required, the rod is finished by the use of three grades of emery cloth, the last being very fine.

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When the magnet has been annealed, its legs should be polished with a piece of emery cloth, and the ends filed up level and smooth.

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Nelson could always manage to spend an hour or so quite contentedly with wrenches and pliers, oil cans and emery cloth and a nice big bunch of cotton waste.

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The worker was using an emery cloth to polish the component on a rotating machine, when his hand was pulled in.

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To use Mr. Meakin's own description of him to his young clerk some time later, he possessed a "tow head and a face like emery cloth."

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