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(1):

(n.) An orderly succession; a line; a row

(2):

(n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; - in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.

(3):

(v. t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.

(4):

(v. t.) To make foul; to defile.

(5):

(v. t.) To smooth or polish as with a file.

(6):

(v. t.) To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.

(7):

(n.) A shrewd or artful person.

(8):

(n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.

(9):

(n.) A roll or list.

(10):

(n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.

(11):

(n.) Course of thought; thread of narration.

(12):

(n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.

(13):

(n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.

(14):

(v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.

(15):

(v. t.) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.

(16):

(v. i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; - generally with off.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'File'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/file.html. 1828.
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