单词 | to file teeth |
释义 | > as lemmasto file (one's) teeth a. transitive. To rub smooth, reduce the surface of, with a file. to file (one's) teeth: (figurative) to render harmless. to file in (or †a) two: to cut in two by filing.In the contextual use ‘to sharpen’ (weapons) sometimes associated with affile v.1 ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (intransitive)] > other tools or equipment filec1230 to blow the bellowsc1440 pump1508 vice1612 plane1678 shovel1685 turn1796 brake1862 pestle1866 chisel1873 roll1881 slice1893 leverage1937 monkeywrench1993 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] > with a file to file in (or a) twoc1230 the world > action or operation > safety > make safe or secure [verb (transitive)] > make safe or not dangerous > make harmless unarm1569 to file (one's) teeth1599 cicurate1606 disenvenoma1711 scotch1726 defang1919 neutralize1937 sterilize1939 declaw1940 recuperate1967 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 147 Nis hit or acurset. þe iwurðeð swartre & ruhre se hit is ifilet mare? c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2225 A deneȝ ax..Fyled in a fylor. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 354 And a file to file þis nayle a two. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 6 Pinnes..shal..haue..the point well and rounde, filled, canted and sharped. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ciij He fyleth & whetteth his horne on a stone. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered i. 6 It is..time enough to file your teeth, or muzzle you. 1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 65 Some persons are committed for fyling the edges of new shillings. 1787 T. Holcroft tr. Life Baron Trenck (1886) II. 33 I filed the iron which passed through it on the outside. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) at File Leaving the surface that has been filed more or less smooth. < as lemmas |
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