bastard n. a (large) tool with a rough side or edge used for smoothing or shaping. Editorial Note: A curiosity of the LOTJ editing process is that the first citation listed for it came before the second: somewhere, the definition was expanded but there’s no information on the source that enabled them to do so. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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