burnisher
Americannoun
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a person who burnishes.
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a tool, usually with a smooth, slightly convex head, used for polishing, as in dentistry.
Etymology
Origin of burnisher
First recorded in 1400–50, burnisher is from the late Middle English word burnessher. See burnish, -er 2
Example Sentences
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When I was older, he brought home presstype, sheets of alphabets in different fonts that you would transfer to illustration board by rubbing the waxy paper with a burnisher until the letter stuck.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022
If the burnisher is not sufficiently polished, it scratches the copper, and produces black spots in the proofs.
From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne
It is cut with shears into a plate of the size required, and slightly domed with a burnisher or hammer, after which it is cleaned by acid and water.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
The burnisher flattens and enlarges the surface of the copper, and consequently diminishes the width of the line.
From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne
You then fill these scratches with fine black-lead, in powder, rubbing it in with the finger, turn the tracing with its face to the plate, and rub the back of it with a burnisher.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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