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(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of adze [A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.]
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(British spelling) Alternative spelling of ax to grind [(American spelling) A proposition or point of view to advocate, especially motivated by self-interest.]
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(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A molar tooth; molar.
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To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
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Alternative spelling of bonefolder [A dull-edged hand tool used to fold and crease material in crafts.]
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Alternative form of boxcutter [A utility knife.]
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Alternative form of boxcutter [A utility knife.]
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A device for cutting bread, often consisting of a platform and a hinged blade.
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A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.
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Alternative spelling of butchers' knife [A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats.]
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A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
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A wooden slab used as a cutting surface for food etc.
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(usually in the plural) An East Asian eating utensil usually used as a pair and held in one hand to grip pieces of food or occasionally to mix liquids or scoop up small pieces of food. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood and measuring approximately 23cm (10 inches) in length.
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A season's crop of wool.
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(surgery) Alternative form of crowbill (“kind of forceps”) [A bec de corbin.]
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(surgery) A kind of forceps for extracting bullets etc. from wounds.
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A functional object with a cute or novelty design.
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A similarly shaped tool; a machete.
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One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery.
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(obsolete) The art of making edged tools or cutlery.
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A dibber (gardening tool)
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A razor designed to be a consumable product and to be disposed of in its entirety once its cutting edge has dulled.
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A variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.
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(transitive) To slice, bone or make into fillets.
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A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
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(obsolete) A pair of shears.
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A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
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A knife for taking the hair off skins.
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The bevel on a knife blade.
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A device or machine with a cutting blade.
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Alternative form of hatcheler [One who uses a hatchel.]
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The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
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(colloquial) A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
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A stick of incense, especially (China Taoism, Buddhism, &c.) those burned as an offering before a Chinese shrine.
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A piece of cutlery in the form of a fork with a sharpened outer tine, enabling it also to be used as a knife.
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(plural only) Pruning shears with long handles, used for lopping
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Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
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A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.
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A device allowing a paralysed person to perform various activities using only the mouth.
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A thin stick used in manicuring, with one tapered and one pointed end.
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Alternative spelling of peen [To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.]
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Synonym of pinking shears
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(plural only) A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for gardening
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(dated) Pliers once used to extract teeth.
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A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
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(business, attributive) A business model where one item is sold cheaply (or given away for free) in order to increase sales of a complementary good, such as blades for a razor, or ink cartridges for a printer.
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A replaceable cartridge in which razor blades are set, fitted into a razor.
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A broad, heavy leather strop, designed to whet a razor on
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A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
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A razor, designed for safety, that protects the skin from all but the very edge of the blade (as opposed to a straight razor).
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A slate-cutter’s hammer; slate-ax.
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The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
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A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.
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(obsolete) The perforated bone disk forming the core of a button.
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(obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
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(transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
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A tool for cutting undergrowth.
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A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
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(UK, regional, dated) A metal lunchbox (food container).
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A thick pole or piece of wood.
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(historical) A double-bladed handsaw for cutting the teeth of combs.
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The process by which a razor is stropped.
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Obsolete form of scythe. [An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.]
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Synonym of froe (“a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood”)
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A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.
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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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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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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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A pointed lancet used in vaccination.
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A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.
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(West Country, Somerset, Devon) Alternative form of scythe. [An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.]
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