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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Siege :: Siege (n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
Ripper :: Ripper (n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
Trowel :: Trowel (n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them..
Mallet :: Mallet (n.) A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet..
Ripper :: Ripper (n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool..
Platen :: Platen (n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table..
Recapper :: Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
Twibil :: Twibil (n.) A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it..
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
Burin :: Burin (n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble..
Hassock :: Hassock (n.) A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use..
Throe :: Throe (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
Jigger :: Jigger (n. & v.) A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.
Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
Warkloom :: Warkloom (n.) A tool; an implement.
Frower :: Frower (n.) A tool. See 2d Frow.
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..
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