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Moulding :: Moulding (p.a.) Used in making a mold or moldings; used in shaping anything according to a pattern.

Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..

Rimer :: Rimer (n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

Boss :: Boss (n.) A swage or die used for shaping metals.

Forming :: Forming (n.) The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers..

Dresser :: Dresser (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

Fate :: Fate (n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him..

Tubulation :: Tubulation (n.) The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort..

Blocking :: Blocking (n.) The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks..

Chisel :: Chisel (n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer..

Burr :: Burr (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting..

Shaping :: Shaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shap.

Statesman :: Statesman (n.) One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy..

Casting :: Casting (n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold..

Cutting :: Cutting (n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc..

Ferret :: Ferret (n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles..

Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure..

Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

Edging :: Edging (n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal..

Swing :: Swing (v. t.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter..

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