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burnisher

[ bur-ni-sher ]

noun

  1. a person who burnishes.
  2. a tool, usually with a smooth, slightly convex head, used for polishing, as in dentistry.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of burnisher1

First recorded in 1400–50, burnisher is from the late Middle English word burnessher. See burnish, -er 2
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When I was older, he brought home presstype, sheets of alphabets in different fonts that you would transfer to illustration board by rubbing the waxy paper with a burnisher until the letter stuck.

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Then along comes Biden the aggrandizer and burnisher of his own image.

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The lone Indonesian in the group, Zainal Abidin, 50, a burnisher at a furniture workshop in South Sumatra Province, sought a review from the Supreme Court in 2005 after getting a death sentence for trafficking 129 pounds of marijuana.

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His studio is equipped with two large rectangular tables and a variety of hand tools for making holes, a beveler for rounding corners, X-Acto knives for cutting pattern pieces on leather and a burnisher — a small, hardwood wheel attached to a Dremel rotary tool that smooths the leather’s edges.

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When it is believed that the proper degree of dryness has been obtained, the edge is polished with a burnisher.

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