Found 2 hits - Term: bastard file, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [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.
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that bastard self-love which is so vicious in
itself, and productive of so many vices. --barrow.
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3. of an unusual or irregular make or proportion; as, a
bastard musket; a bastard culverin. obs.
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4. print. abbreviated, as the half title in a page
preceding the full title page of a book.
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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.
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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.
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2. anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or
figuratively.
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mock the nice touches of the critic's file.
--akenside.
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3. a shrewd or artful person. slang --fielding.
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will is an old file in spite of his smooth face.
--thackeray.
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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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Bastard File, definition of term: Bastard File
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Bastard, definition of term: Bastard
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