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burnish

In ceramics, the process of smoothing and polishing. A burnisher, a tool with a smooth, rounded stone or metal surface, is used to achieve the required degree of finish.



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It burnishes or smooths rough edges of the inner neck finish and top seal surface, and it can discharge bottles upright.
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Despite the weightiness of her themes, Johnson, with her unconventional humor and lightness, burnishes each story so that the ordinary becomes something else entirely.
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