burnisher

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A tool used to burnish, for making smooth and shiny by rubbing
{n} a person or tool that burnishes
A bent, rounded tool, usually of metal or bone, with a smooth surface for polishing the plate top
An intaglio tool with a wooden handle and a metal shaft that has a smooth, hard end It can be used to flatten the roughened printing plate by pressing against it, thereby lightening a line or a tonal area
A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing
polishes or shines metal
a tool with a flat blunt wand used to smooth or shine an area using friction
One who burnishes
{i} polisher, shiner
It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses
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to make brilliant or shining
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{v} to polish, bright, growbright
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Smooth or shiny area above the breakout on a sheared edge Also called shear or cut band
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Before firing, a hardening clay pot is burnished – rubbed with a smooth, hard implement – to compact the clay and make it smooth, shiny and watertight
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To smooth a workpiece by rolling or sliding it over a surface under pressure
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/ 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
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To make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine
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{i} gloss, shine, luster
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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
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To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large
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is to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing To rub with a tool (a burnisher) to make smooth or for turning an edge
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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
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To polish or rub to a smoother or glossier surface
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The term used to describe the rubbing down and securing of copy to a keyline
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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
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To smooth the surface of a pot by rubbing with a hard object to give a finish with a polished effect
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The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster
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Usually refers to the use of high speed equipment when buffing a floor and designates a type of maintenance program
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the property of being smooth and shiny
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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
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polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"
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To apply to or finish by the act of rubbing
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{f} make shiny or smooth by rubbing, polish
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