smoother
/ˈsmuːðə/noun
1A device or substance used to give something a flat, regular surface or appearance: a pair of English oak 19th-century bed linen smoothers wrinkle smoothers...
- The cloth could be 'ironed' by rubbing it between a whalebone plaque and a fist-sized glass or stone smoother which was heated either in hot sands or by the fire.
- There is some suggestion that wax was used to make the pleats permanent, by ironing it in with the warm glass linen smoothers.
- At least six of these, with U-shaped grooves that run the full length of the specimens, are fragments of arrow shaft smoothers.
2A person who deals successfully with a problem or difficulty: he acts as a smoother of relations...
- Some stars choose not to be smoothers of rough edges, and the void in the leadership department is yet another reason many believe the team will stumble.
- Even formal groups engender informal member roles such as social smoothers, hard workers, or experts in a given area.
- Relationship builders are the harmony-creators, discord-dissolvers, and emotion-smoothers that all teams need in order to be maximally effective.
