polishing : Idioms & Phrases


Polishing iron

  • an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

Polishing snake

  • a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones.
Webster 1913

Polishing wheel

  • a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.
Webster 1913