sandpaper

4 definitions found

sandpaper - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sandpaper \Sand"pa`per\, n.
     Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for
     smoothing and polishing.
     [1913 Webster]

  Sandpaper \Sand"pa`per\, v. t.
     To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
     [1913 Webster]

sandpaper - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sandpaper
      n 1: stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand [syn: emery paper
           , sandpaper]
      v 1: rub with sandpaper; "sandpaper the wooden surface" [syn:
           sandpaper, sand]

sandpaper - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "sandpaper":
     broken ground, broken water, buff, burnish, chop, corduroy,
     corduroy road, corrugation, dress, emery, file, furbish,
     goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grind, horripilation, lop,
     polish, pumice, ripple, rough, rub up, sand, sandblast, shine,
     smooth, washboard