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buffing wheel

British  

noun

  1. Also called: buff wheel.  a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing

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That’s not a problem when he has easy access to the surface that’s etched, because he can hold those pieces up to his grinding and buffing wheels.

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But it won’t give the same results that a pro would get with an array of grinding and buffing wheels.

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Donna tends the front of the shop, while Wells works in the back, which is filled with stitching machines, buffing wheels, glue, polishes, knives and nails.

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“We dig them and polish them right here,” volunteered the Dodecahedron, pointing to a group of workers busily employed at the buffing wheels; “and then we send them all over the world. Marvelous, aren’t they?”

From Literature

However an aeronautical engineer volunteering at the kiln showed him buffing wheels used to smooth welds on fuselages.

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