emery cloth

American  

noun

1. emery-coated cloth used as an abrasive.

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Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From BBC

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."

From Project Gutenberg