pumicate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin pumicatus, past participle of pumicare (“to pumicate”), from pumex. See pumice.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editpumicate (third-person singular simple present pumicates, present participle pumicating, simple past and past participle pumicated)
- (transitive) To make smooth with pumice.
- 1925, Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Fruitfulness, page 8:
- It was a long, spacious place, where the polishers, in smocks of black serge, sat in double rows pumicating and grinding their pieces at little work-boards.