round file

British  

noun

1. a wastepaper basket

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verb

1. (tr) to throw into a wastepaper basket; discard; reject

Example Sentences

Make a hole about ¼ in. in diameter through the cork with a small round file, or burn it through with a hot nail.

From How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by St. John, Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew)

Each mouth of each bottle must be fitted with a cork, having a hole made with a round file of a proper size for containing the tube.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

These corks are pierced with the necessary holes for receiving the tubes by means of a round file, as in Pl.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

Still this tightness should be at the entrance of the nock, while the bottom of the nock is made a trifle more roomy with a round file.

From Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Pope, Saxton

Holes can be bored through glass and bottles with a broken end of a round file kept wet with a solution of camphor in oil of turpentine.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips