Definition of Abrader

1. Noun. A tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing.

Exact synonyms: Abradant
Specialized synonyms: Abrading Stone, Steel-wool Pad
Generic synonyms: Tool
Derivative terms: Abrade, Abrade, Abrade

Definition of Abrader

1. Noun. Something that abrades; a tool or machine for abrading. ¹

2. Noun. (archaeology) A primitive artifact made of sandstone used for smoothing, sharpening, or shaping. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abrader

1. a tool for abrading [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abrader

abporal
abr.
abra-cadabra
abracadabra
abracadabras
abrachias
abradable
abradant
abradants
abraded
abrader (current term)
abraders
abrades
abrading
abrading stone
abradingly
abraid
abraided
abraiding
abraids
abram
abram-man
abrams
abranchial
abranchialism

Literary usage of Abrader

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities by William Henry Holmes (1919)
"The probable manner of use of the thin stone blade as a saw-abrader Fio. 207. Use of the saw-abrader. is indicated in figure 207, and examples of the traces ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... part of the instrument, including the abrader, should be minutely defined, and for comparative determination an empirical standard should be fixed. ..."

3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... abrader (rare); spec, carborundum, emery, sand, pumice, shagreen, putty, bort, rouge. Antonyms: see LUBRICANT. abreast, a. beside, alike (contextual}, ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1818)
"... Island,* Iceland, and the coast of [abrader, we know not by what chance or operation it arrived at the spot where it was picked up. ..."

5. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"Without stopping to discuss the obvious «suits of a contrasted zonal location, such as that between ^abrader and Yucatan, the Kola Peninsula and Spain, ..."

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