Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which furbishes, or makes bright by rubbing; one who or that which cleans or polishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
furbishes ; especially, asword cutler , who finishes swordblades and similarweapons .
Etymologies
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furbish + -er. Compare French fourbisseur.
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Examples
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Where the innate capacity is good, education may make an impression upon it; but no furbisher knows how to give a polish to iron which is of a bad temper.
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He is called "a furbisher of every cutting instrument of copper and iron."
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