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(historical) A machine for smoothing the surface of a shoe's sole and heel with a fine abrasive..
Every well appointed shoe factory equips such machines as edge trimmers, heel shavers, rough rounders, naumkeags, bottom, tip and tap scourers and brushes with a hooded metal pipe, into which the leather dust and buffings are drawn as soon as made.
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Naumkeag means (historical) A machine for smoothing the surface of a shoe's sole and heel with a fine abrasive..
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Every well appointed shoe factory equips such machines as edge trimmers, heel shavers, rough rounders, naumkeags, bottom, tip and tap scourers and brushes with a hooded metal pipe, into which the leather dust and buffings are drawn as soon as made.
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