emery wheel

"See, the end has been ground away by a set of coarse emery wheels or something.

Then suddenly there was a sound that ripped across his nerve ends like an emery wheel.

The name is wordplay on an emery wheel, a sharpening device.

I've got the throw-down, too, all numbers acid-burned and ground on an emery wheel," he said.

The knife was thick at the top, the color of an old five-cent piece, wood-handled, the cutting edge ground on an emery wheel.

Grinding stones, abrasive paper, and emery wheels can further shape, smooth and polish the surface.

A long bench covered almost an entire wall, on its hardwood top a heavy band saw; a wood lathe, an emery wheel, and a vise.

Peach Finish subjects the fabric (either cotton or its synthetic blends) to emery wheels, making the surface velvet-like.

The grindstones were used until the 1920's, when more was known about work-related illnesses and they were replaced with emery wheels.

This is America, buffaloes or no buffaloes, America the emery wheel of hope and disillusionment.

It can be a tear-gas pen, a toy pistol, or perhaps the real article, the serial numbers burned off with acid or on an emery wheel.

With properties equivalent to natural stone, it found applications as filtering slabs, vases, tombstones, decorative architectural work, emery wheels and grindstones.

Jeppson then went on to become the Chief Engineer of the Norton Emery Wheel Company.

It was filled with the offices of lawyers, doctors, agents for machinery, for emery wheels, for wire fencing, for mining-stock.

When you had got to go to the emery wheel, you'd gotta hold the things and emery wheel them and yourself.

He continued his experiments and in 1885 the Norton Emery Wheel Company was created with Jeppson as one of the creators.

I've seen quite brilliant people in ICI who throw off sparkling ideas like an emery wheel, but only one in ten of their ideas is likely to be viable.

Some people leave the mantels stripped, with the black of the cast iron contrasting with the raised designs that can be polished almost to pewter brightness with an emery wheel.

The boggies were dazzled by the fabled capital of all Twodor, Stronghold of the West and Lower Middle Earth's largest producer of crude oil, yo-yos, and emery wheels.

By heating it in an enclosed high temperature steam boiler the siliceous particles were bound together and could be moulded or worked into filtering slabs, vases, tombstones, decorative architectural work, emery wheels and grindstones.

To meet the challenge, House developed a rotary plane with a ring knife that could be fed as it moved, with a set of small emery wheels each side of the knife so that it was sharpened on every revolution.