graille
English
editEtymology
editCompare French grêle a sort of file.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgraille (plural grailles)
- A half-round single-cut file or float, with one curved face and one straight face, used by comb-makers.[1]
References
edit- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Graille”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “graille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Graille”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file) - Homophones: graillent, grailles
Verb
editgraille
- inflection of grailler: