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Sandpaper   /sˈændpˌeɪpər/   Listen
noun
Sandpaper  n.  Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, used for smoothing and polishing.



verb
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



... unsanctified morale, its riotous overflowing ideals; and she was instant in gathering that to see, to comprehend these was to be thrice blessed, as not to see, not to comprehend them was to dwell in outer darkness with the bourgeois, and the "sandpaper" artists, and others who are without hope. It gave her moments of pure delight to reflect how little "the people" suspected the reality of the existence of such a world notwithstanding all they read and all they professed, and how ...
— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)

... Bacteria and of Antiseptics, Various Processes, Cleansing, Forming, Drying, Crushing, etc., Secondary Products — Uses of Glue: Selection and Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding, Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc., Substitutes for other Materials, Artificial Leather and Caoutchouc — Gelatine: General Characters, Liquid Gelatine, Photographic Uses, Size, Tanno-, Chrome and Formo-Gelatine, Artificial Silk, Cements, Pneumatic Tyres, Culinary, Meat Extracts, Isinglass, Medicinal and other ...
— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech

... his feet and, snatching a piece of sandpaper from the pocket of his apron, began furiously rubbing down the ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... railway it was, and what splendid rolling stock they had! Steel sleepers, big heavy rails, low gradients, excellent cuts and bridge work; cuttings through rock smoothed as if by sandpaper and crevices filled with concrete. Fine concrete gutters along the curves, such ballasting as one sees on the North-Western Railway. Nothing cheap or flimsy about the culverts. Railway stations built regardless of cost and the possibility of traffic; stone ...
— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey

... the parts together. If the animal does not stand perfectly, rub the feet on a piece of sandpaper. Use water color or ...
— Primary Handwork • Ella Victoria Dobbs


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