Don Schwartz wrote:
>
> On 10/19/2014 9:41 AM, JAMES THOMPSON wrote:
>> It may just be me, but the words themselves seem contradictory. An object
must be one thing or another. It can't be two different objects at the same
time. Except when it means "exactly what I want it to mean."
>>
>> A scraper is one kind of tool, and a burnisher is another. And never the
twain shall meet.
>
> The wording is misleading. It's a scraper burnisher ( i.e. a burnisher for
scrapers), not a burnisher / scraper.

Indeed. "Adjectival noun". Like Fly swatter.

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