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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In glass manufacturing, an implement, consisting of a smooth block of wood with a rod of iron for a handle, used for flattening sheet-glass while hot on the polishingstone. Also called flattener.
- n. A small implement for polishing the finger-nails.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A polishing or grinding implement or instrument.
- n. (Glass Making) A tool consisting of a flat wooden block with a long iron handle, used for flattening out split cylinders of blown glass.
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“The moment it was fairly open the flattener took his polissoir, a rod of iron with a block of wood at one end, and began smoothing out the uneven sheet of glass into a flat surface.”
“Let us attend to the culture of our nails,' replied Amanda, producing her _polissoir_, powder, and knife.”
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