Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of file with a somewhat curved extremity, suitable for working in small depressions.
- n. A workman who uses such a file, especially in metal-work.
Wiktionary
- n. A mechanical device consisting of a metal box with a series of vertical slats through which material is poured and randomly divided into two samples; this process is repeated to obtain a small representative sample of a bulk material
- n. A curved file used in carving wood and marble.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A curved file used in carving wool and marble.
Examples
“I could hit the high spots with a flat file and use a riffler in the curves, a lot of scraping and some sanding.”
“The tapper and riffler was an agent named Barry Medlar, of the Bureau’s Albany field office.”
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Marbles
From the GNU Webster's 1913:
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Object Lesson
An A to Z of interesting object names.
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