Past tense of 'emery,' meaning to smooth or polish a surface using emery paper or emery cloth.
Derived from 'emery,' which comes from Middle French émeri, from Greek smiris, a hard mineral used for grinding and polishing. The suffix '-ed' marks past tense in English.
Emery has been used for thousands of years—ancient Egyptians and Greeks used it long before we had modern sandpaper, making it one of humanity's oldest industrial abrasives.
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