n
The largest hammer used by smiths.
n
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
n
cutting work done with an adze
n
a metal-cutting shear with a hinged jaw, powered by a flywheel or hydraulic cylinder
n
(obsolete, especially in plural) A tool used to remove the bark from trees.
n
A half-round file or rasp (being a flat file on one side, and a round file on the other); typically having coarse teeth.
n
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
n
The cutting iron of a plane.
n
(obsolete) A hammer used to process flax.
n
A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
n
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
n
A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
n
A tool used to burnish, for making smooth and shiny by rubbing.
n
A square-headed hammer with spikes used in stoneworking to either even the surface before polishing, or give it a pockmarked and weathered aspect.
n
(mining, slang) A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining.
v
(intransitive) To use a chisel.
n
(on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
n
A can opener having a triangular tip that pierces the can.
n
A narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc.
n
A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
n
A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.
n
A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.
n
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
n
Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
n
a hammer with a blade-like peen at right angles to the haft, used by carpenters.
n
Alternative form of curette [A spoon-shaped surgical instrument for cleaning a diseased surface.]
n
(obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
n
An instrument for scraping the teeth; a toothpick.
n
A device for cutting into a specified shape.
n
A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.
n
Any of several sticks, often with a hook, used by the elderly or infirm to help put on clothes.
n
(mechanical engineering) A heavy weight that is raised and then allowed to drop, as used for piledriving and drop-forging.
n
(military) An entrenching tool.
n
Any of various electric tools for shaving.
v
(archaic, transitive) To cut with a chisel.
n
A metal cap on the butt end of a weapon shaft, often having a sharp point.
n
(military, slang) A set of cutlery.
n
A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
n
A tool for removing debris from between the teeth of a file.
n
(countable) A tool for removing debris from between the teeth of a file.
n
Alternative form of file card [A tool for removing debris from between the teeth of a file.]
n
A steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife.
n
A thin chisel with a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
n
A kind of chisel with a flared blade.
n
A flat-faced fulling hammer.
n
A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.
n
A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.
n
A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
n
A froe or frow (cleaving tool).
n
A groove made by such a tool (in the blade of a sword etc.).
n
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
n
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
n
An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
n
A very strong curved spade used in digging canals
n
A half-round single-cut file or float, with one curved face and one straight face, used by comb-makers.
n
A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
n
Pliers with serrated jaws, one curved and one flat, used by glaziers to break and finish glass in a controlled manner.
n
A pickaxe with one sharp point and one cutting edge.
n
A miner's pickax or hack.
n
Any of various mechanical or electrical devices used to cut hair.
n
Alternative form of halligan; Ellipsis of Halligan bar. [A tool, used mostly by firemen, to pry open buildings, manholes, wrecked cars, etc.]
v
To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
n
(metonymically) Socialism or communism itself.
n
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
n
A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
n
(engineering) A double-action planing tool invented by Joseph Whitworth, in which the blade ‘jumps’ to face the other way on the back-stroke.
n
The distance between diverging saw teeth.
n
A tool for stretching leather on a last.
n
A multitool, usually with a plier head as the central implement, that has an array of other implements such as knives, screwdrivers, can openers, files, saws, and so on.
n
(photography) a small brush used to clean dust off camera lenses.
n
A knifelike device with a blunt edge, used for slicing letters open.
n
Synonym of throatless shear
n
A small quantity of straw etc.
n
A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
n
A small sledgehammer, intended for single-handed use.
n
A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
n
A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
v
(rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
n
A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.
n
A hammer, especially a war hammer.
n
A drop press with a ram, which is raised and allowed to fall freely.
n
Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
n
(archaic, rare) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
n
A tool used to pare things.
n
A stonecutter's hammer with a head consisting of broad thin chisels clamped together.
n
(dentistry) A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
n
A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
n
A pick with one end sharp and the other blunt, used by miners.
n
Alternative spelling of pickaxe [A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.]
n
A double-ended fire-fighting tool, usually long-handled, and having an ax-blade on one side and a mattock-blade on the other.
n
A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
n
A hand tool with a flexible blade used by glaziers to apply putty to seal window panes to the frame and mullions.
n
A bit for boring, resembling half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a gouge.
n
A small edged tool with a handle, for making marks on timber, lead, tin, etc.
n
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
n
A kind of nipper used to remove irregularities from the edges of glass.
n
A curved file used in carving wood and marble.
n
A tool for splitting shingles.
n
A circular rotatory knife for cutting india rubber.
n
Alternative form of sawbuck [A framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse.]
n
A small prehistoric flint tool that has serrated edges
n
A toothed raspatory used in trephining and in removing carious bone.
n
A type of teetotum (spinning top).
n
A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines; a marking awl.
n
A kind of chisel or punch, variously shaped, with a broad flat end, used for stripping off rivet heads, etc.
n
A blacksmithing tool meant to be struck by a hammer
n
A device for making things sharp.
n
A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.
n
A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
n
Alternative form of scissel [Metal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.]
n
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
n
A tool with a broad flat end that is used to rake out a furnace grate.
n
A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
n
A piece of wood wrapped in abrasive cloth, used for sharpening blades.
n
A tool used to remove concrete.
n
(dialect) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.
n
A person or device that makes a splice.
n
A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
n
Alternative spelling of spokeshave [A woodworking tool used to shape and smooth rods and shafts - often for use as wheel spokes, chair legs, or arrows.]
n
A mechanical hammer in which the blow is delivered or augmented by the force of a spring.
n
an electronics tool made of nylon filled with glass, for holding components while soldering.
n
(metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
n
A device designed to remove staples from paper, typically a small device with a spring-loaded hinge and four curved metal members resembling teeth.
n
A hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, used for breaking stone.
n
The action of throwing one or more stones, often as a form of aggression or assault, or with the intention of causing damage.
n
a hammer with a blade-like peen parallel to the haft, used by carpenters.
n
A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
n
A tool (originally a bevelled chisel) for making grooves in horseshoes.
n
A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in ironworking, lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
n
The handle of a joiner's plane.
n
Any small hammer, for example in orthopedics or construction.
n
Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
n
A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
n
A powered machine used in a forge which repeatedly strikes work placed on an anvil.
n
Alternative spelling of trip hammer [A powered machine used in a forge which repeatedly strikes work placed on an anvil.]
n
(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).
n
A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
n
A specialised hand-held power tool used for cutting narrow grooves in walls, for instance when laying electrical cable.
n
a hammer with a blade-like peen at right angles to the haft, used by carpenters.
n
(usually in the plural) A chip or shaving whittled from some larger substance.
n
A person who woodchops as a sport
n
(chiefly in the plural) A shaving from wood.
n
A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!
Today's secret word is 6 letters and means "Not working as originally intended." Can you find it?