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A power tool used to buff surfaces
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polisher
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polisher \Pol"ish*er\, n. One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. --Addison.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who makes something smooth or shiny. 2 A tool that makes something smooth or shiny. 3 A machine that makes something smooth or shiny. 4 A person who refines something.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a power tool used to buff surfaces [syn: buffer ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES apple polisher EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is also a small but effective water polisher and adds extra aeration. ▪ It will not source the gems directly from De Beers but will obtain them from top diamond polishers. ▪ The ...
Usage examples of polisher.
Cyrus Harding, having at his disposal neither carders, combers, polishers, stretchers, twisters, mule-jenny, nor self-acting machine to spin the wool, nor loom to weave it, was obliged to proceed in a simpler way, so as to do without spinning and weaving.
Nay, those great polishers of our manners, who are by some thought to teach what principally distinguishes us from the brute creation, even dancing-masters themselves, might possibly find no place in society.
And it bore little or no resemblance to the book as we have it now--now that the salaried polisher has holystoned all of the genuine Eddyties out of it.
Trade guilds and corporations bear the following titles, drawn up in 1789, from the files of complaints: apothecaries, jewelers and watch-makers, booksellers and printers, master-barbers, grocers, wax and candle-makers, bakers and tailors, master shoemakers, eating house-keepers, inn-keepers and hatters, master-masons and plasterers in lime and cement, master-joiners, coopers and cabinet-makers, master-cutlers, armorers, and polishers.
In addition to the hundreds of men who worked there daily, there were some fifty women, burnishers and polishers.
The house let for thirty-eight pounds a year with rooms rented to a number of people of various occupations, including an apprentice, a printer's warehouseman, a colorman grinder, a cocoa packer, a French polisher, a chair maker, and a laundress.
The professor was the last to emerge, juggling an armful of papers and accompanied by a die-hard apple polisher who followed him down the hall peppering him with questions.
Taking a break from bumpy noses, evolution had equipped the Toorjaani with noses that bent at a right angle, pointing left (the dominant caste) or right (ser vants, doormen, boot polishers, so on).
Taking a break from bumpy noses, evolution had equipped the Toorjaani with noses that bent at a right angle, pointing left (the dominant caste) or right (servants, doormen, boot polishers, so on).
Under the shadowless glare of fluorescent tubes emerge the nocturnal inhabitants of those offices, like the advance guard of some subterranean civilisation with their weaponry of vacuum cleaners, polishers, mops and buckets.
He had rolled a big floor polisher into the room and he was working with its thick orange power cord, tying a hangman's noose in the plug end of the cord.