emery cloth

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   cloth covered with powdered emery

   Broaderabrasive

Questions about emery cloth

What does emery cloth mean?

emery cloth means "cloth covered with powdered emery".

Is emery cloth a common word?

emery cloth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.