the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who, or that which, smooths.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who or that which smooths.
n. A flatterer; a wheedler.
n. In printing, a tape used in a cylinder-press to hold the sheets in position against the cylinder.
n. A wheel used in glass-cutting to polish the faces of the grooves or cuts already made by another wheel: the smoother is usually of stone.
n. The workman who operates such a smoother for polishing grooves or cuts.
An obsolete form of smother.
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n. a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor
Word Usage
"For all the hyperventilating about Obama's "socialist" sic designs, his problem is that is just Clinton redux, that is, a smoother face of the oligarchy."