polisher
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
polisher (plural polishers)
- A person who makes something smooth or shiny.
- A tool that makes something smooth or shiny.
- A machine that makes something smooth or shiny.
- Where do you keep the floor-polisher?
- Synonym: polishing machine
- A person who refines something.
- a polisher of stories
- 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 4:
- When he had repoſed four years and four months in the boſom of care, rocked in the cradle of proſperity, he was brought forth, according to the cuſtom of true believers, and committed to the charge of moralifts of high fame, poliſhers of noble manners, and ſearchers of true knowledge, that they might cultivate his heaven-born genius, and teach him with dignity to rule that world which he was born to command[.]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
person who makes something smooth and shiny
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tool
machine
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person who refines
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