sander
noun
a person or thing that sands or sandpapers.
sander
1 American
[san-der]
/ ˈsæn dər /
noun
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sanders
plural
Sander
2
American
[san-der]
/ ˈsæn dər /
noun
sander
British
/ ˈsændə /
noun
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a power-driven tool for smoothing surfaces, esp wood, plastic, etc, by rubbing with an abrasive disc
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a person who uses such a device
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The report found "the automatic sander did not function, probably due to the presence of electrical faults in its control circuit, while the manually-operated emergency sander was not activated by the driver".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Applying slight tilting pressure with the handle gets the rotary sander to move left or right.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
The palm sander is used along the edges of the room, while the rotary sander is used in the wide-open areas of the floor.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
If you didn’t need a sander for stripping and don’t own one, you can do this by hand, with 220-grit sandpaper.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
Within a week, he is promoted to sander, making $9.50.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Organisers have cancelled the four-day techno music festival Defqon.1 in Biddinghuizen in the central Netherlands, scheduled to start on Thursday, its director Sander Bijlstra told the ANP news agency.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
There are two pictures in “The Farmer” section titled “Farmer Couple— Propriety and Harmony,” both from 1912; Sander incorporated into his project pictures he had taken before formally embarking on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
"People are increasingly disliking each other," says Prof Sander van der Linden, who researches social psychology at the University of Cambridge.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
"We've always dreamed of a fairytale wedding," 44-year-old Dutch businessman Sander Castel told AFP after contacting ApoteoSurprise, an agency that organises picturesque engagements.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
"Widge," said Mr. Pope, "shake hands with Alexander Cooke, known familiarly as Sander."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Over the whine of buzzsaws and the steady whir of sanders, hundreds of Vietnamese workers in a factory outside Ho Chi Minh City hustle to fill orders for high-end furniture.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Northern trains are often fitted with what are catchily-titled double variable rate sanders.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
The best rotary sanders, in my opinion, have about six small, rotating sanding discs that are part of a larger orbiting sander disc.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
When it comes out, it comes out raw and then it gets all the drills and files and sanders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
The high-pitched noise of the sanders had driven 426 away.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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