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Dubbing :: Dubbing (n.) The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz..

Fettling :: Fettling (n.) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.

Goose :: Goose (n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose..

Hairbrush :: Hairbrush (n.) A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

File :: File (n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc..

Rake :: Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth..

Rabot :: Rabot (n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

Grozing Iron :: Grozing iron () A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.

Broach :: Broach (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper..

Smoothing :: Smoothing (a. & n.) fr. Smooth, v..

Roughhew :: Roughhew (v. t.) To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber..

Style :: Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax..

Roughdry :: Roughdry (v. t.) in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing..

Smooth :: Smooth (superl.) Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.

Darby :: Darby (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc..

Router :: Router (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

Lure :: Lure (n.) A velvet smoothing brush.

Roughhewn :: Roughhewn (a.) Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.

Burnisher :: Burnisher (n.) 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..

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