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Sandpaper  v. t.  To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sandpaper" Quotes from Famous Books



... a thousand years old made from old goat's milk, and dug from the Pyramids too late to save it, was what surrounded us, and the sand storm blew through the cars laden with germs of the plague, and stuck to us so tight you couldn't get it off with sandpaper, and when we got here all we have had to do is to bathe ...
— Peck's Bad Boy Abroad • George W. Peck

... up against the sandpaper edge as cute as anything, said Hy Smith. Even our consciences had gone back on us—they didn't have nothing to work on. The town looked like it had been deserted and then found by a party of citizens ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... Christmas when the night came for hanging up his stockings, and he asked Uncle Remus if it was n't his turn to tell a story. The old man laid down the piece of glass with which he had been scraping the cow's horn, and hunted around among his tools for a piece of sandpaper before he replied. But his reply ...
— Nights With Uncle Remus - Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation • Joel Chandler Harris



Words linked to "Sandpaper" :   emery, sandpapery, abradant, abrasive material, smoothen, sand, rough-sand



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