emery wheel
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Asked how the emery wheel business was now, the General admitted: "Not so good."
From Time Magazine Archive
Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it.
From Time Magazine Archive
His energy was abrasive, and where it touched the world, it threw off hot, stinging little sparks like an emery wheel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The table c traverses back and forth past the emery wheel, after the manner of an ordinary iron planing machine, the mechanical parts effecting this motion being placed within the bed upon which c slides.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Flat surface grinding, in which the emery wheel takes the place of the ordinary steel cutting tool; and 4th.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
