quannetn.
/ˈkwɒnᵻt/, U.S. /ˈkwɑnət/ Now chiefly historical.
A flat file or rasp used as a plane in filing flat surfaces, as in comb-making.
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1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. III. at Files The comb-makers use a tool..called a quonet, having coarse single teeth, to the number of about seven or eight in an inch.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. xxviii. 838 In using the quannet, the work is mostly laid upon the knee as a support.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1842/1 Quannet, the flat file of the comb-maker, having the handle at one side, so as to use like a plane.
1975 R. A. Salaman Dict. Tools 152/1 A float for abrading flat surfaces, made like a Baker's Rasp, is called a Quannet.
1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Oct. 1 Don Paschal stood in a Loudoun County farmyard, gloating over hundreds of scorps, witchets, jiggers..twivels, trammel points, quannets, dengelshtocks and sugar devils.
1990 P. Muldoon Madoc ii. 209 He'll run his hands like quannets over the Contessa's breasts and thighs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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