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Emery cloth   /ˈɛməri klɔθ/   Listen
Emery cloth

noun
1.
Cloth covered with powdered emery.






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"Emery cloth" Quotes from Famous Books



... the worse for the work of the makers of to-day and for those of yesterday. But who says the ancients did not use it, or crocodile skin, or a cloth made in Venice, and somewhat after our emery cloth? or variously shaped files of different cuttings? At a time when sculpture and very chaste and highly finished woodwork would employ it largely, does any one mean to assert that the violin, not by any means held in the estimation it is to-day, must receive the ...
— Violin Making - 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. • Walter H. Mayson



Words linked to "Emery cloth" :   abradant, abrasive, abrasive material



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