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Meanings of stove polish in English

Stove black.

Usage of stove polish in English
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A good stove polish can be made by mixing together 1 lb.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
2
Aunt Mary bought either shoe laces or stove polish from him.
The new yorker
3
His big, coarse shoes shone with a metallic lustre suggestive of stove polish.
Sixes and Sevens
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His big, coarse shoes shone with a metallic luster suggestive of stove polish.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
5
My goodness me, sakes alive, and a bottle of stove polish!
Uncle Wiggily's Travels
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You don't mean to say you took my stove polish to use in your battery, do you?
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on th...
7
Bill put another coat of stove polish on the weapons, and broke now and then into silent laughter.
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
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She cried till she was too tired to care and then went to Jessup's for some stove polish.
Green Valley
9
Even with a blacking brush in one hand and a can of stove polish in the other, Mr. Broxton
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
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Then he said to stope out my stove polish ore and sell it for enough to go on with the development.
Remarks
11
It read "Use Rising Sun Stove Polish."
The Gray Dawn
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'And since when has the Canuck queens been usin' stove polish for talcum powder?'
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
13
On his helmet in place of a crest Knight Chick bore aloft a metal banneret inscribed, "Invincible Stove Polish."
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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"Then I wish you'd bring me a bottle of stove polish," requested the housekeeper.
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on th...
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Stove polish consists of 2 parts graphite, 4 parts copperas and 2 parts bone black, mixed with water to form a paste.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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" Stove polish," she said.
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions