Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who burnishes or polishes.
- n. A tool of various shapes and material, but commonly with a smooth, slightly convex head, used for polishing in various processes and operations, as in porcelain-painting, dentistry, etc.
- n. An instrument of tempered steel, with slightly curved polished sides and rounded point, used by etchers and line-engravers to remove roughnesses, scratches, and stains from the surface of a metal plate. Wood-engravers who wish to take by hand a trial-proof of a block, finished or in progress, ink the raised lines, lay over them a piece of India paper and a card, and then, by even friction with the burnisher, obtain the desired impression.
- n. In shoemaking, a polishing-machine which holds the shoe firmly while a heated steel tool is pressed with force against the heel or sole, previously moistened with a preparation of varnish.
Wiktionary
- n. A tool used to burnish, for making smooth and shiny by rubbing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who burnishes.
- n. 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.
Examples
“She was a retired burnisher at Bruce Fox in New Albany.”
“‘Verily, then, I may enter,’ said Kai, ‘for there is no better burnisher of swords than I.’”
“Scraper burnisher to be firmly pressed on the wide face during burnishing.”
“- Burnishing of the ridge by moving the scraper burnisher along the longitudinal narrow faces and pressing it towards the wide face.”
“- Burnishing of the wide faces by means of a scraper burnisher humidified with oil until there is no ridge anymore.”
“Using the rib burnisher with the spongy side down, she picked up a dab of the cooled red fat, and rubbed the mixture into the prepared bison skin, pressing hard as she held the hide in her hand.”
The Mammoth Hunters
“Also, cotton, alcohol, punches and a flat - faced burnisher. ”
Gorky Park
“It was a cabochon stone and the blade of his burnisher closed the bezel deftly.”
The 9th Directive
“The gold leaf is laid on the still wet edge, and when slightly dry is covered with a sheet of paper and rubbed down with a burnisher, and when entirely dry is burnished again with a smooth piece of agate or bloodstone.”
“The parts of the plate that are too light are made darker by rubbing down the surface of the plate with a tool called the burnisher.”
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All things light-filled and radiant.
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