Also quonet. [Of obscure origin.] A flat file set in a frame, and used as a plane in filing flat surfaces, as in comb-making.
1848. Whittock, Complete Book of Trades, 225. The comb-makers use a tool … called a quonet, having coarse single teeth, to the number of about seven or eight to an inch.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 1842/1. Quannet.
