For "filister" read "fillister"; according to more or less contemporary dictionaries, it is a misspelling. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Rebating planes are the moving fillister, the sash fillister, the common rebating plane, the side rebating plane. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
None was more appealing than D.niel D. Whitker's saw-rabbet plane (pat. 52,478) which combined "an adjustable saw with an adjustable fence or gage, both being attached to a stock with handle similar to a plane, forming together a tool combining the properties of the joiner's plow and fillister" (fig. 61). From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
(b) Screws are also classified by shape; as, flat-headed, round-headed, fillister-headed, oval-countersunk-headed, and square-headed screws. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Micro Plastics has a large inventory of nylon screws that include such head styles as binder, binder combination, fillister, hex, pan, round, socket, oval, flat, and thumb screws, as well as studs, grubs, flat head wing and polycarbonate screws. From Wordnik.com. [ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News] Reference
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