emery stone
- noun
- /ˈɛməri stoʊn/
- Specialized
:
piedra de esmeril
- The craftsman used an emery stone to polish the metal.
Examples
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Polishing jewelry is often done with a fine-grained emery stone.
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I bought an emery stone for my workshop.
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After years of use, the emery stone needed to be replaced due to wear.
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The workshop used an emery stone to sharpen the blades.
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The workshop used an emery stone to sharpen the blades.
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Polishing jewelry is often done with a fine-grained emery stone.
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After years of use, the emery stone needed to be replaced due to wear.
Synonyms
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6.9
A thick round stone that turns to sharpen knives and other tools
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6.7
A stone used to make blades or tools sharp
A hard stone used to sharpen or grind metal tools
A stone used with oil to sharpen the edge of knives and tools
A stone people rub on other objects to smooth or sharpen them
How Abrasive
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Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'emery' denotes a grinding mineral and 'stone' denotes a rock/tool, so 'emery stone' straightforwardly means a stone made of emery used for sharpening or polishing. This follows ordinary noun + noun compound logic found across languages, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun emery stone comes from the hard rock emery and the word stone. People made small tools from rough emery to grind and sharpen metal, so today emery stone means 'a hard stone used for sharpening or polishing'.