polishing-cask love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tumbling- or rolling-barrel in which light articles of metal are placed with some polishing-pow-der, and cleaned and burnished by attrition against one another. A similar apparatus is used for polishing grained gunpowder.

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