emery paper

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   stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand

   Synonymssandpaper

   Broaderabrasive

Questions about emery paper

What does emery paper mean?

emery paper means "stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand".

What is another word for emery paper?

Close synonyms include sandpaper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is emery paper a common word?

emery paper 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.