Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A flat
file having thehandle at one side, so as to be used like aplane .
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reesetee commented on the word quannet
(Historical) A flat file or rasp, used as a plane in filing flat surfaces, as in comb-making.
October 10, 2008