Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A miner who enlarges the roadways by breaking down the roof-rock or by taking up rock from the floor.
- noun A local Australian name for the small, active kangaroos which inhabit the scrub, or brush.
- noun One who brushes.
- noun In leather manufacturing, one who performs the mechanical work of dyeing skins. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 728.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, brushes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
brushes (any of the meanings)
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Examples
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The cloth on a number of beams is sewed into a strip and passes through a machine variously known as a "brusher," "shearer," or "calendar."
From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina 1906
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She was employed as an enamelled ware brusher, wherein lead poisoning is encountered.
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Again there isn’t one brush that will cover all opponents and the negativism is very likely to splash around the brushees and get the brusher.
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Always a young man known, as a “pusher,” he had been, since the day of his graduation from the manual training department of a New York High School, an inveterate brusher of clothes, hair, teeth, and even eyebrows, and had learned the value of laying all his clean socks toe upon toe and heel upon heel in a certain drawer of his bureau, which would be known as the sock drawer.
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And she was always the fastest tooth brusher in the family, although admittedly she had the advantage of only having that one tooth.
Keep It Simple Terry Bradshaw 2002
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And she was always the fastest tooth brusher in the family, although admittedly she had the advantage of only having that one tooth.
Keep It Simple Terry Bradshaw 2002
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And she was always the fastest tooth brusher in the family, although admittedly she had the advantage of only having that one tooth.
Keep It Simple Terry Bradshaw 2002
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The Bather/Brusher Grooming program prepares the student for employment as a bather/brusher in a professional grooming establishment.
You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999
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The Bather/Brusher Grooming program prepares the student for employment as a bather/brusher in a professional grooming establishment.
You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999
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The machine she had indicated was a walk-brusher, evidently going out to clean the walk to a garden at the edge of the dome.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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