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Definition of Emery cloth
1. Noun. Cloth covered with powdered emery.
Definition of Emery cloth
1. Noun. An abrasive material, like sandpaper, made by gluing grains of emery to a cloth or paper surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emery Cloth
Literary usage of Emery cloth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"... but if hot the metal can be brightened with a file or polished in the lathe
with emery cloth and will remain bright as long as it is hot. ..."
2. The Complete Practical Machinist: Embracing Lathe Work, Vise Work, Drills by Joshua Rose (1876)
"emery cloth AND PAPER. For ordinary work the ordinary grades of emery paper and
cloth may be employed, the finest being flour emery cloth or paper. ..."
3. Text-book of Advanced Machine Work: Prepared for Students in Technical by Robert Henry Smith (1919)
"Order of applying different numbers of emery cloth.— If the work is carefully
finished, limited application of 60 and 90 will produce an effective polish; ..."
4. The Mineral Industry (1897)
"These should be turned or shaped by an experienced mechanic, being finally finished
on a dead-smooth file and by means of emery-cloth to an accuracy of ..."
5. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"emery cloth only differs from emery-paper in the nse of thin cotton cloth ...
The emery cloth, when folded around a file, does not ply so readily to it as ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"After the tool marks have been removed by filing, the piece is treated with a
coarse piece of emery cloth, which will remove the file marks. ..."
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