Then suddenly there was a sound that ripped across his nerve ends like an emery wheel.
The knife was thick at the top, the color of an old five-cent piece, wood-handled, the cutting edge ground on an emery wheel.
I've got the throw-down, too, all numbers acid-burned and ground on an emery wheel," he said.
Grinding stones abrasive paper and emery wheels can further shape, smooth and polish the surface.
This is America, buffaloes or no buffaloes, America the emery wheel of hope and disillusionment.
A long bench covered almost an entire wall, on its hardwood top a heavy band saw; a wood lathe, an emery wheel, and a vise.
When you had got to go to the emery wheel, you'd gotta hold the things and emery wheel them and yourself.
The grindstones were used until the 1920's, when more was known about work-related illnesses and they were replaced with emery wheels.
See, the end has been ground away by a set of coarse emery wheels or something.
The name is wordplay on an emery wheel, a sharpening device.