单词 | quannet |
释义 | quannetn. Now chiefly historical. A flat file or rasp used as a plane in filing flat surfaces, as in comb-making. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > file > [noun] > other files jack file1678 knife-file1683 pillar file1683 using-file1683 carlet1688 grail1688 screw-rasp1688 riffler1797 quannet1809 safe edge1815 cross-cut1831 saw-file1846 shouldering file1846 warding file1846 found1874 side file1874 cant-filea1877 pin bone1936 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). < n.1809 |
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