emery wheel

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Origin of emery wheel

1
First recorded in 1850–55

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How to use emery wheel in a sentence

  • If an emery wheel mounted in a polishing head or lathe is at hand, this can be easily accomplished.

  • A tight-fitting wood plug is driven into the throughway of the tee and the ends ground off flush on the emery wheel.

  • It is frequently the case that an emery wheel will become glazed, due to its extreme hardness.

  • Basils for gaiters are dyed in paddle and fluffed over the emery wheel.

    Animal Proteins | Hugh Garner Bennett
  • There were nineteen of them, and a few burns from an emery wheel quickly put each one “out of sight.”

    The Stamps of Canada | Bertram Poole

British Dictionary definitions for emery wheel

emery wheel

noun
  1. a grinding or polishing wheel consisting of, or the surface of which is coated with, abrasive emery particles

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