Noun: emery
| Singular | emery |
| Plural | emeries |
Sample Sentences
-
It took me from nine to ten days to grind and polish it ready for parabolising and silvering. I did this by hand labour with the aid of emery, but without a lathe. I finally used rouge instead of emery in grinding down the glass, until I could see my face in the mirror quite plain. [1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry:]
Nouns inflected like emery
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French émeri, from Old French esmeril, from Italian smeriglio. See: French Nouns '
émeri', Italian Nouns '
smeriglio'.