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Glazer :: Glazer (n.) A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc..

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

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

Slicking :: Slicking (n.) The act or process of smoothing.

Card :: Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back..

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..

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

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

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

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

Sandpaper :: Sandpaper (n.) Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing..

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..

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..

Slicker :: Slicker (n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.

Sadiron :: Sadiron (n.) An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

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

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

Darby :: Darby (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc..

Broach :: Broach (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper..

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

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