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polisher|ˈpɒlɪʃə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who polishes or produces a smooth and (usually) glossy surface on anything. Often in comb., as brass-polisher, shoe-polisher, silver-polisher, stone-polisher.
1552Huloet, Polisher of old wares to seme salable or new, interpolator. 1685Boyle Effects of Mot. Suppl. 144 A Polisher of Gems. 1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6187/4 James Whitelegge,.. Looking-Glass Polisher. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 607 The thick varnish which polishers or sword-cutlers use. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 5 A polisher of parquet-flooring.
2. A tool or appliance for polishing anything.
1598Florio, Frucatore, an iron furbishing toole, a rubber, a polisher. 1777Mudge in Phil. Trans. LX. 318 The..polisher is..made by covering the tool with sarcenet. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 201 Polishers for steel are..of soft steel, iron, bell-metal, tin, zinc, lead or boxwood.
3. fig. One who refines: see polish v. 2.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 355 You are the neate Polishers of the rude antient Latine and Greeke. 1749Fielding Tom Jones ix. v, Those great polishers of our manners..dancing-masters. 1801H. More Wks. I. 26 Conversation, heav'nly fair..Soft polisher of rugged man! |