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GLASS GRINDER

Specialty Definition: GLASS GRINDER

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Occupations

Removes rough edges and surface convexities from formed glassware, using belt or disk grinder: Turns valves to regulate flow of abrasive compound and water on metal disk or to regulate flow of water on grinding wheel or belt grinder. Presses and turns edges and surfaces of glass or glassware against revolving grinding tools to remove rough and uneven areas. May measure glassware for conformance to specifications, using steel tape, template, and fixed gauges. May grind glass container mouth with mating glass stopper to ensure fit and be designated Stopper Grinder (glass mfg.). (references)
 Grinds glass or plastic blanks to specified dimensions for use as watch crystals: Holds blank against rotating abrasive wheel to grind edge. Polishes edges of blank, using felt and pumice stones. Verifies dimensions of crystal with calipers or gauges, or fits crystal into watchcase. May glue crystal into case. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GLASS GRINDER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

glass grinder

29

stained glass grinder

16

stain glass grinder

3

inland glass grinder

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GLASS GRINDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-g-i-l-n-r-r-s-s"

-2 letters: grandsires.

-3 letters: degassing, draglines, glissader, grandsire, grandsirs, islanders, regarding, regrading, serranids, signalers, snigglers.

-4 letters: aligners, aridness, assigned, assigner, danglers, darlings, dealings, deraigns, draggers, draggier, draggles, dragline, drainers, dressing, earrings, engrails, gainless, ganglier, gangrels, garglers, gearings, geldings, girdlers, gladness, glanders, glassier, glassine, glassing, glissade, gnarlier, gradines, grainers, grandsir, grangers, grassier, grassing, greasing, grinders, islander.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GLASS GRINDER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 4C 41 53 53      47 52 49 4E 44 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010011 00100000 01000111 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#83 &#32 &#71 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 0041 0053 0053      0047 0052 0049 004E 0044 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4146355353241524348383952

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1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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