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TOOL GRINDER

Specialty Definition: TOOL GRINDER

DomainDefinition

Mining

In stonework industry, one who grinds the cutting tools for stoneworkingplaners and lathes to a keen edge of the desired shape. (references)

Occupations

Sets up and operates grinding machines to shape and sharpen planer knives and woodworking machine cutters according to specifications: Positions and secures workpiece or sheet stock, template, and machine accessories onto machine, using handtools. Turns handwheels to set travel and pressure of cutterhead or knife stock across or against grinding wheel to shape or sharpen workpiece. Starts machine and observes grinding operation to verify conformance to specifications. May cut out plastic templates used to fabricate knives and cutterheads. May hone cutting edge of ground knives, using whetstone and oil. May cut and grind silicon carbide jointing stones to match pattern of knives. May select and install grinding wheels on machine, using handtools, applying knowledge of product specifications and abrasives. May manipulate blade across grinding wheel by hand. May turn valve to control flow of coolant. May sharpen or shape knives and saw blades, using handtools. May sharpen bits and boring tool [BIT SHARPENER (any industry) 603.685-026]. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TOOL 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

tool grinder

22
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TOOL GRINDER

Language Translations for "TOOL GRINDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sliber (cutter, grinder, servicer, sharpener), slibemaskine (grinder, polishing machine, sander, servicer, sharpener, sharpening machine). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

slijpmachine (grinder, pulp grinder, servicer, sharpener, sharpening machine), slijper (cutter, grinder, pulp grinder, servicer, sharpener). (various references)

   

French

  

affûteuse. (various references)

   

German

  

Schleifmaschine (grinder, grinding machine, polisher), Schärfmaschine (grinder, servicer, sharpener). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακόνη (whetstone), ακονιστήρι (sharpener). (various references)

   

Italian

  

affilatrice (grinder, servicer, sharpener). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ooltay indergray

   

Portuguese

  

afiador (cheektooth, grinding machine). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

afiladora (grinder, sharpener). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TOOL GRINDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-t"

-2 letters: gondolier, retooling.

-3 letters: drooling, goodlier, ordering, rodeoing.

-4 letters: eidolon, eroding, genitor, girdler, glenoid, glinted, gloried, godlier, grinder, grodier, groined, ignored, ignorer, ingoted, lentigo, lentoid, loonier, looting, lording, loriner, negroid, redoing, redroot, regrind, retinol, ringlet, rootier, rooting, tendril, tingled, tingler, tooling, trindle.

-5 letters: dentil, diglot, dinero, dinger, dingle, doling, dongle, doolie, dotier, doting, droner, drongo.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-t"
 

+5 letters: neuroradiologist.

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

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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