brush away
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Rare form of brush aside.
Example Sentences
- "Recently the Great Northern Railway, U,S.A., which has a considerable mileage of line bordering the Pacific seaboard, has put in service mobile equipment for applying anti-corrosion treatment to rails. An old motor-car has been adapted to carry two oxy-acetylene flame-cleaning heads, which simultaneously clean both sides of both rails of all mill-scale and rust as the car is hand-propelled forward; men follow to brush away the loosened material; the final operation is that of spraying both rails, by means of paint guns carried on a trolley, with a corrosion-resisting compound."