WordNet
n. a fragment of iron rubbed off by the use of a file
Usage examples of "iron filing".
Jazz Simmons's plot would probably seem unremarkable to any other visitor, but Jake was drawn to it as an iron filing to a magnet.
This close to a true metaphysical POWER, his own small talent was reacting like an iron filing whirled in a strong magnetic field.
Her crumpled-parchment face, her slumped shoulders, her pale withered hands, and her shuffling step combined to convey the impression not only of extreme age but of frailty and vulnerability - which drew Billy Neeks as if he were an iron filing and she a magnet.
In that undertime, drawn by the crimson line like an iron filing to a lodestone, the thin black curtain seemed to fade into dark translucence.
It came closer and closer, attracted like an iron filing to a deadly magnet.
That corridor didn't have a glow at the end, that pulled at him like a magnet pulls at an iron filing.
The material components of this spell are a flake or drop of resin, an iron filing or sliver, a strand of spider silk, and a paste made of ground legumes.
Like the honey-bee for the flower, the iron filing for the magnet, Uncle Arthur was determinedly heading straight for the shore again.