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emery board
noun
: a piece of cardboard that is covered with a rough material and that is used for smoothing and shaping fingernails
Full Definition of EMERY BOARD
: a cardboard nail file covered with emery
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First Known Use of EMERY BOARD
1725
Rhymes with EMERY BOARD
aboveboard, beaverboard, bottle gourd, centerboard, checkerboard, circuit board, clavichord, College Board, cutting board, daggerboard, disaccord, diving board, drawing board, fiberboard, fingerboard, free on board, gold record, harpsichord, leaderboard, mortarboard, motherboard, of record, overboard, overlord, paddleboard, paperboard, pinafored, plasterboard, pompadoured, room and board, running board, sandwich board, shoulder board, shuffleboard, silver cord, smorgasbord, sounding board, spinal cord, storyboard, sweep the board, tape-record, teeterboard, tetrachord, untoward, weatherboard
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