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Toughen metal by hammering
Answer for the clue "Toughen metal by hammering ", 7 letters:
planish
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Word definitions for planish in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Planish \Plan"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Planishing .] [OF. planir, F. planer. See Plane , v., and -ish .] To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To repeatedly hammer (a sheet of metal) so as to shape and smooth it or create a decorative indented finish.
Usage examples of planish.
Gideon Planish at an Eskimo Culture rally held by the Antinomians, he inquired whether the good Doctor was a believing Fundamentalist who had family prayers night and morning.
Planish flew with President George Riot out to Bonnibel College for Women.
But if Peony played nothing more than ingenue at the wedding, it was she who took the lead when they returned to Kinnikinick, and she who chose a gold-and-scarlet cabinet to brighten up their cottage, and Professor Planish was so proudly in love that he liked it.
This magnificence so submerged the Doctor that suddenly he was no longer a conquering Hun of humanitarianism, but just Doc Planish, a Kinnikinick prof.
Planish to get the Major into a taxicab and accompany him safely as far as the Winifred Marduc Homeward residence on East 68th Street, Peony went along, and they sang quite a little more in the taxicab, and when the Major held her hand, she was proud to have such interest taken in her by one of those rare men who are liaison officers between rich society and the working intelligentsia--that combination that makes New York so fascinating and so very, very different from Kinnikinick, Iowa.
During this recital, Carrie Planish, returning from some unexplained engagement, looked into the kitchen and sniffily withdrew.