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The largest hammer used by smiths.
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A tool or machine for abrading; abrader.
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A worker who uses an adze.
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A usually hand-held grinder which uses a pair of internal gears to place the rotational axis of the grinding or cutting wheel perpendicular to that of the driving motor.
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An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
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(music) Alternate spelling of bit crusher.
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(geology) A hammer used by geologists to chop rock samples from boulders for examination.
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A stonemason's broad-faced chisel.
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Diamond of inferior quality, commonly used for drill tips; abrasive diamond powder; bort.
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Synonym of stonemason's hammer
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(masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
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A machine for bruising oats.
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Alternative form of brushmaking. [The manufacture of brushes.]
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A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
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To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
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A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
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A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end.
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A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
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(stonecutting) A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc.
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Alternative form of ecraseur [(surgery) A surgical instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a chain to avoid haemorrhage.]
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Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
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A person who uses a curette.
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One who is employed to operate an industrial cutting tool.
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A machine that strips the bark from felled trees prior to sawing into logs
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(military, historical) A copper box with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.
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A block of silicon carbide or aluminium oxide used to dress diamond tools by removing the build-up of metal etc.
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A forging process where a hammer is raised and then dropped onto the workpiece to deform it according to the shape of the die.
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A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
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A small zinc ball used for mixing gun powder.
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A prehistoric flint arrowhead.
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A type of milling cutter (a class of cutting tools used in machining) with cutting edges on both the end and sides.
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(archaeology) A small, rounded flint tool used to scrape hides; sometimes fitted to a bone handle.
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(dialect, Yorkshire) an iron sledgehammer
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An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
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(Casting (metalworking)) a live open riser with a hot ceramic liner, designed to counteract the formation of harmful hollows when casting objects of materials such as metals into molds.
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(transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
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A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.
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(archaeology, chemistry, kitchen) A tool or appliance used to break flakes off a piece of material or something into it.
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A miner's double-edged pick.
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The act of making a flint tool.
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A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
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a hammer used by a blacksmith
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A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
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A home-made tool used by bricklayers to cut excess mortar from newly pointed brickwork.
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A toothed chisel used by sculptors
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A prehistoric flint blade
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An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
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Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider") [A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.]
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A grating in a mill race.
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Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -said of building stone.
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A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.
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A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
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A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
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A chisel designed to cut metal that has been heated in a forge.
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A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering their work, especially the inside of casks.
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A jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc.
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A kitchen implement with a zigzag or sculpted edge for cutting or crimping pie or pastry dough into ornate figures. Commonly a jagging wheel. Seldom literally iron, as rustproof materials are preferred.
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A stonemason's tool with a flat face and a pointed part.
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One whose trade is the sharpening of knives on a grindstone.
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(transitive, metallurgy) To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.
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A person who destroys machines.
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A tool for cutting glass to make marbles.
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A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.
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A machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
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A grinder or molar tooth.
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To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
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A form of stainless steel typically used to make blades.
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A hand-held sander that vibrates in small circles, or orbits.
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(archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.
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An artist's tool with a flexible steel blade with trowel-like tip, used to apply paint to the canvas.
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A prehistoric bronze axe.
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A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
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A hammerstone or similar tool used for smashing, or chipping.
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A machine that pickles metal.
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(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
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A technique used to split stone, using a metal wedge (the plug) and two tapering shims (the feathers).
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A fine trowel, (metal) tool used in construction to shape mortar neatly into the seams which joint bricks, stones etc. in masonry.
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A round hole in an anvil designed to hold a pritchel or other round-shanked blacksmithing tool.
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A similar tool with a wide, flat blade used by painters, plasterers, and carpenters to spread putty to fill holes and cracks.
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(historical) Part of a paper mill in which the rags are prepared.
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(historical) A machine for cutting bark off wood.
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A defect in an ingot of steel: a depression lined with scale.
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A scraper used for giving a grindstone a true circular form.
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A metalworker who produces sawblades by grinding.
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The business of a sawmill
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(surgery, archaic) An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets that are moved simultaneously by a spring, used for making slight incisions on a body.
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A stoneworker who removes large projections by boring slanting or transverse holes and using wedges etc. to split the stone.
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(archaeology) A prehistoric unifacial tool thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
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An emery wheel for cutting a space between teeth.
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A kind of hammer used in metalworking.
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A piece of foundry apparatus for shaping a ball of puddled iron.
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To pelt with stones; throw stones at; stone.
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A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
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A person employed to cut or sharpen stones, e.g. for milling.
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A hammer with a flat face and a chisel-shaped blade for chipping off pieces of stone.
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Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
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A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
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A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
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A very small hammer designed for breaking up sheets or slabs of hard toffee.
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Alternative spelling of toolpusher [The senior worker in charge of an oil drilling rig.]
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A Neolithic flint chisel produced by the removal of a thick flake at a right angle to the main axis of the tool
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A tool used for smoothing a mold.
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A set of horizontal blades used to separate mineral particles.
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The end of the roll in a roller mill for shaping steel.
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Alternative spelling of woodchip [A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.]
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Alternative spelling of woodchip [A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.]
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A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.
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Alternative form of wood-hewer [One who earns a living by splitting wood.]
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