Pumicate
//ˈpjuːmɪkeɪt// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make smooth with pumice. transitive
"It was a long, spacious place, where the polishers, in smocks of black serge, sat in double rows pumicating and grinding their pieces at little work-boards."
Example
More examples"It was a long, spacious place, where the polishers, in smocks of black serge, sat in double rows pumicating and grinding their pieces at little work-boards."
Etymology
From Latin pumicatus, past participle of pumicare (“to pumicate”), from pumex. See pumice.
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