Synonyms:
drum_sander, electric_sander, sander, smoother
Meaning: a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor
Usage examples
Here the surface was much smoother and improved rapidly.
Then the whole place got smoother and we turned outward a little.
Toward morning the gale abated, the sea became smoother, and she dropped asleep.
At length we saw a smoother slope towards the land, pushed for it, but knew it was a woefully long way from us.
As we advanced, the ice every day became smoother; so that, from four miles a day, our rate increased to fifteen, and finally (as the sledges lightened) to twenty.
Glass, iron, stones, everything that lay there mingled together, had taken its shape from the same power, and felt as smooth, or even smoother, than her own delicate hand.
In order to discover if the Thomisus is capable of a similar error, I gathered some broken pieces of silk-worm's cocoon into a closed cone, turning the fragments so as to bring the smoother and more delicate inner surface outside.