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English
Etymology
Compare French grêle a sort of file.
Pronunciation
Noun
graille (plural grailles)
- A half-round single-cut file or float, with one curved face and one straight face, used by comb-makers.[1]
References
- “graille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Graille”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton , →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
graille
- inflection of grailler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative