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Definition of Glasspaper
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Literary usage of Glasspaper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pattern Making: A Practical Treatise Embracing the Main Types of Engineering by Joseph Gregory Horner (1885)
"Then proceed to glasspaper. This requires to be carefully done. ... Laying the
glasspaper on this, rub the flanks across the grain, and take care that the ..."
2. Henley's Encyclopædia of Practical Engineering and Allied Trades: A by Joseph Gregory Horner (1907)
"glasspaper is used first for removing the ridges left by cutting tools on wood-work,
... glasspaper of coarse or medium grade is employed on bare wood for ..."
3. Wood Finishing: Comprising Staining, Varnishing, & Polishing with Engravings edited by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1908)
"The following directions for the use of Jaxa polish extract are issued by the
manufacturers. "Smooth the wood with glasspaper and rub in a little oil. ..."
4. Practical Draughtsmen's Work: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1906)
"To straighten the edges of a set-square, lay a sheet of fine glasspaper on a
level surface, place a wood block B with a square edge (see Fig. ..."
5. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1907)
"Glue a bit of moderately rough glasspaper to a bit of stout card or straw board
and a piece of the finest glasspaper to the other side. ..."
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