Meaning of naumkeag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A machine for smoothing the surface of a shoe's sole and heel with a fine abrasive.
   historical
2. A member of a Native American people living near Salem, Massachusetts.
   historical

Examples

“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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