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Definition of Blunt file
1. Noun. A file with parallel edges.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blunt File
Literary usage of Blunt file
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Machine-shop Tools and Methods by William Samuel Leonard (1908)
"A blunt file is uniform in sectional area throughout its length. Quadrangular
Sections.—The most important files in these sections are the following: The ..."
2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"Square "blunt" file is a square file which does not taper, but preserves its
sectional shape from point to tang. It is used for finishing and enlarging ..."
3. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"A blunt file is the same size its whole length instead of being tapered.
An Equalling file is one which looks blunt but which has a slight belly or curve ..."
4. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"blunt file.—A file terminating in a blunt end. Circular File.—A small file having
a circular cross section. Double End File.—A file having both ends cut for ..."
5. The Horseless Age (1899)
"... term indicating a fullness in the centre of the file, and—equaling—indicates
a blunt file having a very slight curvature or belly, from point to heel. ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"A term applied to describe a blunt file upon which is produced an exceedingly
slight belly, or curvature, ..."
7. Technological dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... diente romo, blunt file. — para dientes de sierra, saw file. — dublé (Ism.)
double file, double cut file, checkering file. ..."
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