emery wheel
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Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it.
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Asked how the emery wheel business was now, the General admitted: "Not so good."
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His energy was abrasive, and where it touched the world, it threw off hot, stinging little sparks like an emery wheel.
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In grinding cutters having their teeth a right-hand spiral, care must be taken that in grinding one tooth the emery wheel does not touch the cutting edge of the next tooth.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Another method of grinding flat surfaces is to mount the emery wheel beneath a table t in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua