v
To shape a material using an adze.
v
(transitive) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
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(dentistry) A small wooden stick used in orthodontistry, which the patient bites on when the bands of the braces are fitted.
n
(athletics, disability sports, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
n
A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
v
To remove the knots in cloth.
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(slang) Someone or something that makes a loud, harsh, grinding or rasping noise, like that of a circular saw.
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(filmmaking) A standard wooden clothespin with a metal spring, used to hold gels to the barn doors of cinema lights.
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The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass that connect the handle and swingel.
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A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
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A hair clip with teeth that close to hold hair in place.
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Alternative form of claw hammer [A hammer with two prongs protruding back from the head to allow for removing nails from wood.]
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The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
n
Tongs, usually electrically heated, used for curling or waving the hair.
n
(Britain) A straight razor.
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(obsolete) A large knife or small sword.
n
a tool to curl the eyelashes.
v
(transitive) To make eyelets in.
n
(painting) The pinched metal band which holds the bristles of a paintbrush to the shaft.
n
An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
n
Broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.
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A claw-like ornament at the base of a column.
adj
Having a haft or handle.
v
To punch holes using a hole punch.
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A notch on the spine of a knife blade to increase grip, usually in sets of three or more (jimping).
n
A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.
n
A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
v
To cut or chop with a machete.
n
the habit of biting one's fingernails.
n
Alternative form of needlenose pliers [A variety of pliers with long, narrow extensions of the gripping faces, used to reach into narrow spaces.]
n
A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
n
A tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
n
Tweezers; an instrument for grasping and handling small objects.
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(medicine, obsolete) Caligo.
v
Alternative form of pincushion [(transitive, also figuratively) To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.]
n
A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
n
(slang) A telemark skier.
n
A jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it.
n
A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.
n
Alternative form of prybar [A crowbar (the tool).]
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A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
n
Alternative spelling of razor blade [A thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor.]
n
Obsolete form of razor. [A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.]
adj
Alternative form of riftsawn [(of a log of wood) Sawn radially, so the annual rings are at an angle of nearly 90° to the faces.]
n
Alternative form of scissel [Metal scraps or clippings; especially the remains of fillets from which coin blanks have been cut.]
n
(printing, historical) A printer's tool with a claw at one end for prizing up forms.
n
A broad-faced hammer for pounding leather, driving in pegs, etc.
adj
Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
n
(US, dialect) A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
n
(obsolete) nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener).
v
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
n
A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.
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A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
adj
Having a spring-loaded blade.
adj
Having a spring-loaded blade.
n
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
n
An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbkin or thumbscrew.
n
A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
n
An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
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(engineering) The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.
n
(carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
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A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking) hairs, pulling out slivers, etc.
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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).]
n
Alternative spelling of Weatherby eyebrow [(informal, shooting) An injury caused to the shooter's face when the recoil from a powerful rifle pushes the telescopic sight forcefully against the face of the shooter.]
n
Alternative form of wring-stave [(nautical) One of the strong pieces of wood used in applying wringbolts.]
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