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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..

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

Strickle :: Strickle (n.) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.

Trowel :: Trowel (n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.

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

Comb :: Comb (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb..

Rabbler :: Rabbler (n.) A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..

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

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

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

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

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

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

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

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

Sadiron :: Sadiron (n.) An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

Howel :: Howel (n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks..

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..

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

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