[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bastard \bas"tard\, a.
   1. begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate.
      see bastard, n., note.
      1913 webster

   2. lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; --
      applied to things which resemble those which are genuine,
      but are really not so.
      1913 webster

            that bastard self-love which is so vicious in
            itself, and productive of so many vices. --barrow.
      1913 webster

   3. of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
      bastard musket; a bastard culverin. obs.
      1913 webster

   4. print. abbreviated, as the half title in a page
      preceding the full title page of a book.
      1913 webster

   bastard ashlar arch., stones for ashlar work, roughly
      squared at the quarry.

   bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and
      the second cut.

   bastard type print., type having the face of a larger or
      a smaller size than the body; e. g., a nonpareil face on a
      brevier body.

   bastard wing zool., three to five quill feathers on a
      small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mammalia;
      the alula.
      1913 webster
see also:
bastard bastard ashlar bastard file bastard type bastard wing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

file \file\ fimacl, n. as. fe'ol; akin to d. viji, ohg.
   fimacla, fimachala, g. feile, sw. fil, dan. fiil, cf.
   icel. thorn=el, russ. pila, and skr. pi,c to cut out,
   adorn; perh. akin to e. paint.
   1. a steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made
      by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or
      smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
      1913 webster

   note: a file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made
         by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed,
         while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the
         pyramidal end of a triangular punch.
         1913 webster

   2. anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or
      figuratively.
      1913 webster

            mock the nice touches of the critic's file.
                                                  --akenside.
      1913 webster

   3. a shrewd or artful person. slang --fielding.
      1913 webster

            will is an old file in spite of his smooth face.
                                                  --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   bastard file, cross file, etc. see under bastard,
      cross, etc.

   cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing
      obliquely.

   file blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for
      cutting to form a file.

   file cutter, a maker of files.

   second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer
      than bastard.

   single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel
      teeth; a float.

   smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an
      almost smooth surface.
      1913 webster
see also:
bastard file cross file bastard cross cross-cut file file blank 
file cutter second-cut file single-cut file smooth file 

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