Category:Polishing

Pol"ish*ing,

Defn: a. & n. from polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a Small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- polishing slate. (a) a gray or yellow slate, found in bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) a Kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. -- polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, Abrading material, for polishing a surface.