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- noun Alternative form of
nail file .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small flat file for shaping the nails
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Examples
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Able to slip through the bars, she would have then used a nailfile hidden in her beehive to pick the lock.
Winehouse Escape Plot Foiled Push Jelly 2008
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Able to slip through the bars, she would have then used a nailfile hidden in her beehive to pick the lock.
Archive 2008-07-01 Push Jelly 2008
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This is just one of the Objects shown tonight, others are a pen that can microwave anyone it touches, a nailfile that makes you drop off to sleep and a bus ticket that teleports you to a highway miles away from your original position.
Archive 2007-01-01 Bob Lock 2007
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This is just one of the Objects shown tonight, others are a pen that can microwave anyone it touches, a nailfile that makes you drop off to sleep and a bus ticket that teleports you to a highway miles away from your original position.
The Lost Room Bob Lock 2007
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(Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner).
Ulysses 2003
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He would need tweezers and a nailfile to work out the key that Jessie had left.
High Society Elton, Ben 2002
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Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner).
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The Secure comes with other tools as well - a blade, nailfile, screwdriver, scissors, key ring, LED light and ballpoint pen.
TG Daily Emma Woollacott 2010
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This is not helped when Simran lifts her nailfile, looks at my nails and says, 'Well, there's nothing I can do with those, is there?'
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This is not helped when Simran lifts her nailfile, looks at my nails and says, 'Well, there's nothing I can do with those, is there?'
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