round file
Britishnoun
verb
Example Sentences
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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 Rufus Phillips Williams
A round file should always be a little smaller at its greatest diameter than the hole in the work.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The same difficulty occurs in a round file, and the surfaces of curvilinear files do not therefore present, under ordinary circumstances, the same uniformity as those of flat files.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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 Antoine Lavoisier
Lubricators.—These are short pieces of tubing hollowed at one end by a round file of the same diameter as the bearings.
From Things To Make by Archibald Williams
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