'Second-cut file' definitions:

Definition of 'Second-cut file'

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  • Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.]
  • 1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other. [1913 Webster]
  • And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen. xli. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. [1913 Webster]
  • May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. [1913 Webster]
  • A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Second Adventist. See Adventist.
  • Second cousin, the child of a cousin.
  • Second-cut file. See under File.
  • Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also {middle ground}, or middle distance. [R.]
  • Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers.
  • Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table.
  • Second intention. See under Intention.
  • Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.
  • Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. [1913 Webster]
  • On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Second-cut file'

From: GCIDE
  • File \File\ (f[imac]l), n. [AS. fe['o]l; akin to D. viji, OHG. f[imac]la, f[imac]hala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf. Icel. [thorn][=e]l, Russ. pila, and Skr. pi[,c] to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. paint.]
  • 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. [1913 Webster]
  • Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. --Akenside. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] --Fielding. [1913 Webster]
  • Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc.
  • Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely.
  • File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file.
  • File cutter, a maker of files.
  • Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard.
  • Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float.
  • Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. [1913 Webster]