BURNISHER • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Burnisher

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Burnisher n.

One who burnishes.

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.

See images of 'Burnisher'

Etymology of 'Burnisher'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Burnisher" Quotes from Famous Books

... preponderates emery paper is best, and really good sand paper may also be used, but all paper should have very little "cut," should be applied dry, and allowed to become clogged, so as to act principally as a hard dry rubber or burnisher. If the polishing is at all in excess the wood will get rubbed or worn down below the metal. The fine finish required when tortoiseshell and metal are used is got by rubbing with blocks of charcoal used endways with oil and the finest ...

— Intarsia and Marquetry • F. Hamilton Jackson

... produces designs of grace and appropriateness, whether they are strikingly new or not, and the best craftsman is so skilful that he is able to go beyond the hammer marks, so to speak, and to produce with the hammer a surface as smooth as, and far more perfect than, that produced by an emery and burnisher. Some people think that "Arts and Crafts" means a combination which allows of poor work being concealed under a mask of aesthetic effect. Labour should not go forth blindly without art, and art should not proceed simply for ...

— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison

... and there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the Giant, and except for a craftsman who brings his craft, the gate will not be opened to-night." "Verily, porter," then said Kai, "my craft bring I with me." "What is thy craft?" "The best burnisher of swords am I in the world." "I will go and tell this unto Gwrnach the Giant, and I will ...

— The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards