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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of file, used especially for scraping zinc plates for the process denominated anastatic printing, Ure.
  • noun A flat file set in a frame like a plane, used in the manufacture of combs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

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  • noun archaic A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

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  • (Historical) A flat file or rasp, used as a plane in filing flat surfaces, as in comb-making.

    October 10, 2008