metal filing

1. 1.

   a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file

   Broaderfiling

   Narroweriron filing

Questions about metal filing

What does metal filing mean?

metal filing means "a fragment of metal rubbed off by the use of a file".

Is metal filing a common word?

metal filing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.