abrade

How to use abrade in a sentence

• A bar of steel having sharp teeth on its surface, and used for abrading or smoothing hard surfaces.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 | Various

• Their energy is dissipated in moving shore drift hither and thither and in abrading the bench when they drag bottom upon it.

  The Elements of Geology | William Harmon Norton

• But as long as there are any stage roads in sight, or signs of abrading wheels, you will find no trout.

  A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. | William Chauncey Bartlett

• When a part was fully developed, the rubbers were cut to smaller and smaller dimensions and the abrading reduced to minute areas.

  The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites | Percy Edward Raymond

• The levelling and abrading action of water on rock has an entirely different character.

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 | Various