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A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

An instrument or utensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc. My young soldier, put up your iron. Shak.

The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.

A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined; especially:

A velvet smoothing brush. Knight.

A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure. Mangle rack (Mach.), a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groov…

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavin…

a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in clean…

ry vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished. Knight.

ing hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.

Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.

A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

The act or process of smoothing.