Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who cuts teeth in files; a file-maker.

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Examples

  • About a year after his removal he had occasion to speak to the file-cutter, and sought him at the Lamb, where a number of Count

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • (What does it profit a file-cutter if he gains his master's whole capital and loses his own life?)

    Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

  • The file-cutter put out a hand with fingers prodigiously long and thin, and deftly parted both Little's eyelids with his finger and thumb, so as to show the whole eye.

    Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

  • In his heart he went with the file-cutter: but his understanding encumbered him.

    Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

  • I have also repeatedly seen a file-cutter eat his dinner with his filthy poisoned fingers, and so send the poison home by way of salt to a fool's bacon.

    Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

  • "The file-cutter never lives the span of life allotted to man.

    Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

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