Word.ws English Dictionary

emery boards

emery boards is the plural of emery board.

Meaning of emery board

Noun

emery board (plural emery boards)

  1. An abrasive strip made by gluing grains of emery onto a rigid material, often used as a nail file.
    • He was known for throwing the “emery ball,” a baseball that had been scuffed with a piece of emery board hidden in the heel of his glove.2009, Chris Epting, The Early Polo Grounds, page 1948

Questions about emery boards

What is emery boards the plural of?
Emery boards is the plural of emery board.

Words near emery boards in the dictionary

  1. emery bag
  2. emery bags
  3. emery ball
  4. emery balls
  5. emery board
  6. emery boards
  7. emery cloth
  8. emery cloths
  9. Emery County
  10. Emery Down
  11. Emery Mills

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: emery boards (page history and authors); emery board (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “emery boards.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/emery_boards. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.