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The term “implement” in literature carries a rich duality, appearing both as a concrete tool and as an abstract means to achieve an end. It is often used to denote a physical instrument—a stone or bone tool for fishing ([1]), an agricultural device that elevates farming ([2]), or even a modern weapon like a revolver ([3])—and, at other times, it represents a vehicle for ideas or actions, such as policies being put into practice ([4],[5]) or instruments of persuasion and power ([6],[7]). This layered usage underscores its capacity to bridge the tangible with the conceptual, serving as a metaphor for both the material tools that shape human endeavors and the abstract mechanisms that drive society forward.
  1. With only a rude implement of stone or bone he had to get fish from the sea, bird from the air, beast from the forest.
    — from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
  2. Every reaper and mower, every agricultural implement, has elevated the work of the farmer, and his vocation grows grander with every invention.
    — from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 01 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
  3. He took down a much more modern and familiar implement,—a small, beautifully finished revolver.
    — from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  4. From 1997 to date, Sudan has been working with the IMF to implement macroeconomic reforms, including a managed float of the exchange rate.
    — from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  5. I earnestly urge the Congress to move swiftly to implement these needed labor measures.
    — from State of the Union Addresses by Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower
  6. In all these instances, we see that fable was a mere auxiliary of discourse--an implement of the orator.
    — from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine
  7. It must have been so; but he esteemed it also as an implement of power, as the means of pushing towards fame and grasping gold.
    — from A History of French LiteratureShort Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edward Dowden

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