Definition of tool

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Tool (n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service..

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Edge :: Edge (v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..
Basil :: Basil (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground..
Making-iron :: Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in..
Excavator :: Excavator (n.) One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating..
Tribolet :: Tribolet (n.) A goldsmith's tool used in making rings.
Frithstool :: Frithstool (n.) A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary..
Burnisher :: Burnisher (n.) A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses..
Dog :: Dog (n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool..
Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
Cut :: Cut (v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well..
Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal..
Point :: Point (n.) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool..
Brick :: Brick (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them..
Catharical :: Catharical (a.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
Stool :: Stool (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
Pick :: Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock..
Froe :: Froe (n.) An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
Hardener :: Hardener (n.) One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels..
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