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Burnisher

Burnisher \Bur"nish*er\, n.

  1. One who burnishes.

  2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.

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burnisher

n. A tool used to burnish, for making smooth and shiny by rubbing.

Usage examples of "burnisher".

Courtesy of Max she had a little workshop kitted out with drills and cutters and melting pot, blast burner and drawbench, hammers, burnishers and buffers.

In addition to the hundreds of men who worked there daily, there were some fifty women, burnishers and polishers.