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file-card

noun

Etymology

From file (“cutting and smoothing tool”) + card (“material with embedded wire bristles”).

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻
  2. derived from carō
  3. derived from *carito✻
  4. derived from carda
  5. derived from carde
  6. inherited from carde
  7. compounded as file-card — “file + card”

Definitions

  1. Material with embedded wire teeth used for cleaning files

    Material with embedded wire teeth used for cleaning files; card-clothing

  2. A tool for removing debris from between the teeth of a file.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for file-card. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA