Word Meanings - BURNISHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to BURNISHER)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RUBBIDGE
  Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GAGATE
  Agate. Fuller.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• LOW STEEL
  See LOW
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• NICKEL STEEL
  A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.