Meaning

4 senses

  1. One who, or that which, smooths.

  2. In glass-cutting, an abrading-wheel for polishing the aces of the grooves cut by another wheel.

  3. A hand plane set to cut thin shavings, to create a polished surface.

  4. (obsolete)A flatterer.

More definitions
  • a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor

Forms

plural: smoothers
Singularsmoother
Pluralsmoothers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor:drum sanderelectric sandersander

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsmooth

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
smoothA2smoothiesmoothlyA2smother

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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