'Polishing slate' definitions:

Definition of 'Polishing slate'

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  • Polishing \Pol"ish*ing\, a. & n. from Polish. [1913 Webster]
  • Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries.
  • Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate.
  • Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones.
  • Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface. [1913 Webster]