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Rat-tail file   /ræt-teɪl faɪl/   Listen
Rat-tail file

noun
1.
A thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat.





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"Rat-tail file" Quotes from Famous Books



... not only a thankless job at any time, but it is no saving of time or money. There was a good two-handed saw in the shed and Hiram found a good rat-tail file. With the aid of a home-made saw-holder and a monkey wrench he sharpened and set this saw and then got Henry Pollock to ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... preserved in print and still be ignorant—not even know how to manage a husband. As a rule people read without proper discrimination, and those who are most careful often go furthest astray. I once knew a woman with no more music in her soul than a rat-tail file, who spent three laborious years learning to play the piano, then closed the instrument and never touched it again. One ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... for boat-gun, if deemed necessary. Lock with lock-string. Elevating screw. Sight. Priming-wire. Boring-bit. Vent-cloth. Sponge and rammer. " " spare. Spring-spike. Rat-tail file. Haversack, with strap, for Captain of howitzer, to contain a supply of primers, spare fuzes, spare lock, vent-bit, vent-cloth, and implements for spiking; leather ammunition-pouches for each of the men of the field-gun, except Nos. 1 and 3, to be supplied ...
— Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. - 1866. Fourth edition. • Bureau of Ordnance, USN


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