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Definition of tool

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Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..

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Cat''s-paw :: Cat's-paw (n.) A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes..

Recapper :: Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Broach :: Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift..

Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon..

Burr :: Burr (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2..

Countersink :: Countersink (n.) A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.

Scriber :: Scriber (n.) A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels..

Trowel :: Trowel (n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc..

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve..

Stale :: Stale (v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon..

Die :: Die (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool..

Gummer :: Gummer (n.) A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw..

Drawbore :: Drawbore (v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it..

Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..

Swage :: Swage (n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge..

Rout :: Rout (v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

Tumbril :: Tumbril (n.) A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.

Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.