emery wheel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of emery wheel
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Asked how the emery wheel business was now, the General admitted: "Not so good."
From Time Magazine Archive
His energy was abrasive, and where it touched the world, it threw off hot, stinging little sparks like an emery wheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drum for driving the emery wheel is at the back of the machine, as shown in the cut.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Foote, a mineralogist, when cutting a section of this meteorite, found the tools injured by something vastly harder than metallic iron, and an emery wheel used for grinding it was ruined.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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