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(historical) A wooden paddle-shaped bat or beetle used to wash clothes by beating, stirring, or smoothing them.
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A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
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Alternative spelling of butchers' knife [A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats.]
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Alternative form of butchers' knife [A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats.]
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A non-serrated or unilaterally serrated table knife with a dull edge and rounded point, designed for spreading butter on a piece of bread without tearing it.
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An apparatus with several beams protruding from a central rotating pole, used to train fighting dogs by having them chase a cat or other small animal in circles.
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The back of the blade on a scythe.
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A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
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A sturdy board, used for cutting and preparing food.
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(UK, East Anglia) A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
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Obsolete form of colter. [A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.]
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(countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
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(Scotland) Synonym of adze.
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One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
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(countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
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The horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play.
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A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
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A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
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(obsolete) A bill-hook used by woodsmen.
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(now dialect, Southern England, Midlands, West Country) A cleaving tool; an iron instrument with a blade set at right angles on a short handle, used for splitting laths or rails.
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Synonym of pruning shears
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A machine or tool of the nature of a grub axe, grub hook, etc.
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Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate.
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Alternative form of handbill. [A pruning hook.]
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(transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
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A mezzaluna used to chop culinary herbs
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A flat, hand-held, metal tool with a hook at one end and a scraper at the other, used by beekeepers to open and clean beehives.
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A vacuum cleaner of the Hoover brand, or irrespective of brand (alternative form of hoover).
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A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
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(military) Initialism of knife, fork and spoon. [A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.]
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(archaic) A trencherman; a person who eats heartily.
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A style of vegetable peeler, consisting of a straight handle and blade, with twine around the handle for a non-slip grip.
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A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.
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A tool for trimming leaves from plants.
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An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.
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A type of primitive water-powered hammer.
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An electrical device for clipping the nasal hair.
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(slang, archaic) A truncheon.
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(historical) A spade for clearing a plowshare.
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Alternative spelling of peavy [A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.]
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Alternative spelling of peavy [A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.]
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A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
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A wooden stick used to stir porridge when cooking.
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A person employed to wind material onto a reel.
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The instrument used for scarifying.
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An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, cotton, etc.
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(historical) A beating instrument for scutching flax by hand.
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(metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
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A tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle.
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A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
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The part of a flail that strikes the grain.
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A woodworking tool used to shape and smooth rods and shafts - often for use as wheel spokes, chair legs, or arrows.
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Alternative form of stir bar [(chemistry) A short magnetic bar with a covering of, usually, Teflon; used with a magnetic stirrer in laboratory work to stir a chemical solution.]
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(historical) A grooming tool used to scrape away dead skin, oil, dirt, etc.
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(dialect) A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.
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A rake with long teeth for raking stubble together.
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The part of a flail that is free to swing, and which strikes the grain in threshing.
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Alternative form of thatch-rake [A tool for combing the straw or similar material in a thatched roof straight, consisting of a straight bar with curved teeth or points.]
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(heraldry) A border device consisting of a straight line from which periodically project short perpendicular lines with slightly curved tips.
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Tool for combing a thatched roof.
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Alternative spelling of threshing floor [The floor of a threshing house or similar area where grain is threshed.]
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Synonym of threshing sledge
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Synonym of threshing sledge
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A rectangular wooden plank designed to separate grain from chaff.
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Alternative spelling of threshing roller, synonym of threshing sledge [Synonym of threshing sledge]
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Alternative spelling of threshing sledge [A rectangular wooden plank designed to separate grain from chaff.]
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An agricultural instrument for twisting ropes out of straw.
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Stray metallic particles or objects (such as staples, baling wire, and nails) that contaminate foodstuffs, animal feed, or silage.
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The support in which an upright spindle is stopped.
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Alternative form of twibill [(carpentry) A two-edged tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortises, with a flat chisel and a mortise chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë).]
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(dialectal, England) A reaping hook, especially for cutting beans and peas.
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Synonym of waiter's friend
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One of the ceremonial tools of Wicca, used specifically for the ritual cutting of plants and herbs; a boline.
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A shovel used to winnow rice or grain from the chaff.
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An exercise movement mimicking a swinging action used for cutting wood.
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