sander

IPA: sˈændɝ

noun

  • A person employed to sand wood.
  • A machine to mechanize the process of sanding.
  • (rail transport) A device which spreads sand on the rails in wet, snowy, icy, slippery conditions to improve traction.
  • (historical) A small device resembling a salt shaker but containing sand that was shaken over a document to remove excess ink.
  • (obsolete) A male given name, formed as a contraction of Alexander.
  • A surname transferred from the given name.
  • A village in Norway.
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Examples of "sander" in Sentences

  • And what the hell is anyone doing with a sander out in the bayou, anyway?
  • Other tools in the line include an auto hammer, multi-tool, circular saw, sander, drill/driver, and LED light.
  • Andrew Testa/Panos for The Wall Street Journal Nic Fiddian-Green uses a handheld sander to smooth a section of a fiberglass model that will be finished in lead.
  • Their source is the artist, three meters above me on an improvised platform at the front of a fork-lift truck, using a handheld sander to smooth a colossal section of a fiberglass model.
  • I promise I'll come up with something pithy, witty, or at least worth reading as soon as I can string three coherent thoughts in a row without wanting to scream and take a belt sander to the kneecaps of the nearest corporate CEO.
  • (Among them: James Corr, a Lehman Brothers casualty turned stay-at-home dad who has invented a mountable wall ledge to hang marathon medals; massage therapist Natalia Rodriguez, creator of a multiform pillow; and military veteran turned film extra Bruce Taylor, the man behind the Mighty Mouth Suck It Up, a dust-free sander.)

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