Dictionary entry

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Webster's Dictionary 1913

File, v. i. [Cf. F. filer.] (Mil.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; — generally with off.

To file with, to follow closely, as one soldier after another in file; to keep pace.

My endeavors

Have ever come too short of my desires,

Yet filed with my abilities. Shak.