/ burnisher - To use a smooth and hardened surface hand tool, called a burnisher, to polish an edge of a tool or to polish either soft ferrous or non-ferrous surfaces Most burnishers are oblong in cross section and slightly curved from handle to end and which taper to a point
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper
Use of a tool to firmly rub copper foil onto glass The point being that copper foil that is not burnished will fall apart upon soldering or any stress being placed on the project
Part of the method for correcting incised lines in an intaglio plate after the area below the level of the incision has been scraped away so that it will no longer hold ink, it is smothered and polished so that incidental lines of scraping will not print top
To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image. The European Parliament badly needs a president who can burnish its image. = improve