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Pumice :: Pumice (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone..

Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..

Goose :: Goose (n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose..

Smooth :: Smooth (superl.) Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.

Rake :: Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth..

Style :: Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax..

Rabot :: Rabot (n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

File :: File (n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc..

Roughhew :: Roughhew (v. t.) To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber..

Roughhewn :: Roughhewn (a.) Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.

Float :: Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

Rabbler :: Rabbler (n.) A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

Grozing Iron :: Grozing iron () A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.

Mangle :: Mangle (n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure..

Strickle :: Strickle (n.) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.

Dubbing :: Dubbing (n.) The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz..

Lure :: Lure (n.) A velvet smoothing brush.

Box-iron :: Box-iron (n.) A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

Smoothing :: Smoothing (a. & n.) fr. Smooth, v..

Howel :: Howel (n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks..

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