noun. A fine-grained impure corundum used for grinding and polishing.

To coat or cover with emery, as in making emery-cloth, emery-paper, or the like.

To rub or polish with emery or with emery-paper, emery-cloth, etc.

noun. A granular mineral substance belonging to the species corundum, which when pure consists of alumina with slight traces of various metallic oxids.

noun. Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under corundum.

noun. cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient.

noun. cloth or paper on which the powder of emery is spread and glued for scouring and polishing.

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noun. a wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.

noun. An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing.

noun. a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)

"Still another variety, greyish-black and generally associated with hæmatite iron ore, is called emery, and, when ground in different degrees of fineness, is so well known by its general use as a polishing medium as to need no description."

corn emery  

emery paper  

emery bag  emery board  emery cloth  

mineral  

Emory  memory  

abrasive  aquamarine  asbestos  beryl  carbuncle  

aluminum oxide  auto polish  colcothar  corundum  crocus  

corundum