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Definition of Burnisher
1. n. One who burnishes.
Definition of Burnisher
1. Noun. A tool used to burnish, for making smooth and shiny by rubbing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Burnisher
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Burnisher
1. An instrument for smoothing and polishing the surface or edge of a dental restoration. Origin: O. F. Burnir, to polish (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burnisher
Literary usage of Burnisher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (1880)
"To remedy this, there are four means at your command: — The burnisher. ...
The burnisher.—As these passages are limited in extent, and not very deeply ..."
2. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...: Comprising Annals by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1868)
"The system of working is by gangs or teams, consisting of laster, second laster,
heeler, trimmer', burnisher and finisher. The bottom sewing is all done by ..."
3. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1854)
"Any mistakes or scratches in the plate may be rubbed out with the burnisher, and
the part levelled with the scraper, polishing it again afterward» lightly ..."
4. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley, W. North (1892)
"... in opposition to mechanical gilding, in which the gold is made to adhere by
the intervention of some glutinous substance. the ' burnisher. ..."
5. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon (1906)
"The burnisher used by leather gilders is a hard polished stone, ... The ordinary
engravers' burnisher is a blade of steel, made thin at one end, ..."
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