Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To polish; sharpen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To polish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To polish.

Etymologies

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Old French afiler, French affiler ("to sharpen").

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