graille
See also: graillé
English
Etymology
Compare French grêle a sort of file.
Noun
graille (plural grailles)
- A half-round single-cut file or float, with one curved face and one straight face, used by comb-makers.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “graille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Pronunciation
Verb
graille