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Rat-tail file   /ræt-teɪl faɪl/   Listen
Rat-tail file

noun
1.
A thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat.





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... preserved in print and still be ignorant—not even know how to manage a husband. As a rule people read without proper discrimination, and those who are most careful often go furthest astray. I once knew a woman with no more music in her soul than a rat-tail file, who spent three laborious years learning to play the piano, then closed the instrument and never touched it again. One ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


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