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concrete usually plural. One of the particles rubbed off by the action of the file.
The wet or greasy grit abraded from a grindstone or axle; the filings or shavings of iron or steel. Hence, any fine waste produced by a machining…
the pasty substance produced by the friction of a grindstone and the cutlery ground upon it, consisting of a mixture of particles of stone and…
= swarf, n.2 a. Cf. soife, n.