From:
"StoneSpider" <ukstonespider@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:30:43 +0100
Subject:
Files was Re: Chisels: pointed vs flat?
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Quoted text begins.From: <VenezianoJ@------- >
Could be. Having made a file, and knowing what a pain in the rear it is,
perhaps the name was given by my "trade ancestor" in "honor" of the guy who
assigned him the task.
End of quote.
Hmm - as I was filing away this afternoon I wondered if it would be possible
to get a file - and rasps re-picked. I've heard that, I think Tiranti,
would do it but don't anymore - if I asked a blacksmith Jerry do you think
they'd either laugh or quote a high price?
One derivation of bastard I've come across is :
Bastard \Bas"tard\, n. [OF. bastard, bastart, F. b?tard, prob.
fr. OF. bast, F. b?t, a packsaddle used as a bed by the
muleteers (fr. LL. bastum) + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of
the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their
saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, ''Don Quixote,''
chap. 16; and cf.G. bankert, fr. bank bench.]
Applied to anything inanimate it seems to mean anything not quite right or
in between one thing and another. Hence the bastard file is between a very
rough file and not so rough file. Mind you - I prefer Jerry's explanation!
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