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(countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
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A hammer driven by means of compressed air.
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A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
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(transitive) To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction.
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(archaeology) A prehistoric flint knife with one edge blunted (backed) and the other sharpened.
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(countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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A tool or machine used for bevelling.
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(welding) A hammer used by electric welders to knock slag off of the welded joint, sometimes having a spring handle to lessen shock to the hands.
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(mechanical engineering) A defect in which a testpiece is deformed into a bollard-like shape.
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A dull-edged hand tool used to fold and crease material in crafts.
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A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
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(manufacturing) A machine that twists strands together during the manufacture of metal wire; a strander.
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A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
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The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
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A person employed to give a concave shape to razors as they are manufactured.
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Alternative form of cork borer [A laboratory tool for cutting a hole in a cork or rubber stopper to insert glass tubing.]
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A tool or attachment for making creases or guidelines.
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An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
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A handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur.
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An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
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A cooper's tool for making these grooves.
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(uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
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(engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
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(metalworking) The general process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials.
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(metalworking) A type of die for cutting screw threads on male fasteners; it is arranged in the form of a plate of tool steel with a graduated series of holes, each being the die opening for a certain size of screw. A predecessor of today's tap and die sets, it is now considered an antique type of tool, no longer in common use but still sometimes desirable as a collectible among tool collectors.
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A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
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A hardened plate of metal, ruby, etc. having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
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An elf-bolt or belemnite.
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A bushing for securing a pipe joint.
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A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
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An engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.
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A hand tool used for scoring a piece of glass so that it can be snapped cleanly in two.
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A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
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Any tool used in grafting.
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The piece of flint or other suitable natural stone that is used in a flintlock weapon to generate a spark
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(now chiefly historical) A small screen held in the hand, used as a fan, or to protect one's face from light or heat.
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A tool powered by human muscle rather than a motor or engine.
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A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.
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A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
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A tool that is used to make holes in stationery for ease of filing.
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(computing, networking) Alternative form of hole punch, to create a port forwarding on the router. [To punch holes using a hole punch.]
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A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
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A tool with a handle and an auger bit, used to extract a section of tissue from a living tree with relatively minor injury to the plant.
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A special-purpose lathe used by watchmakers to burnish and adjust the size of cone pivots.
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A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
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A narrow, slender saw, used in cutting keyholes, etc.
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A knurling tool (attached to a lathe)
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(archaic, military, 19th century to pre-WWI) An armoured combat vehicle, a tank.
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A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones.
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(medicine) A metal wire or stylet inserted into a flexible catheter to give it shape and firmness while passing through a hollow tubular structure.
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A small, slender piece of wood or cardboard serving as a component of a match.
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A wood working appliance used to guide a handsaw or backsaw for making precise cuts, usually 45° and 90° mitre cuts. The mitre boxes are made of wood or plastic.
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An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
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(rare) Someone whose occupation is to trim and beautify the fingernail or toenails; a manicurist, in Japan and parts of Southeast Asia.
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Alternative form of nail-polished [Wearing nail polish.]
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A circular gasket, usually made of rubber.
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A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
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To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
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A tool or machine that makes holes, or perforates, materials such as paper and card.
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A device designed to pierce earlobes by driving a pointed starter earring through the lobe.
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A hand-held tool used by plumbers to cut pipe.
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A hand tool consisting of a lever that ends in a toothed surface and an attached chain or strap. In use, the pipe is squeezed between the chain and the teeth, thus gripping the pipe. This version is used more for threading pipe sections together.
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A kind of file (rasping tool) for work with keys such as impressioning.
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A small metal wheel with evenly spaced points or spikes used for making a series of small holes in soft material such as fabric, leather, wood or paper, so as to leave an indelible but hardly visible mark.
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A tool for prising something open.
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A slotted plate for carrying the gears of a lathe.
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Alternative spelling of quartersaw [(woodworking) Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.]
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A tool for boring a hole wider.
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In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
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An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.
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The motion by which the design on a steel mill is transferred to a copper cylinder.
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A metal file with a circular or rounded shape, used for shaping round surfaces.
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(of a screw) Having a dome-shaped head.
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A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
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An iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much.
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A piece of wood having a groove on one side to fit the convexity of a rope.
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The mechanism in a sawmill that positions the log for the next cut.
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Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
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(engineering) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured.
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An apparatus adapted to a turning lathe for carrying the cutting tool.
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Shears for slitting sheet metal.
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A tool that is used to solder.
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A hand-held tool with a heated tip, used to melt and apply solder.
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A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
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A method of manual electric welding that uses a consumable flux-covered electrode that forms a slag to protect the weld from oxygen degradation.
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The tailstock of a lathe.
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The hewing or dressing of stone.
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Any of various machines used to plane or dress a surface.
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A holder swinging on horizontal centres, on which work is fastened so as to hold flat against the face of a file.
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A wooden plug, or a metal or canvas cover, for the muzzle of a gun, cannon, or other piece of ordnance when not in use; a stopper; a bung.
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A fine precision saw with a metal strip to provide stiffening along its back; used to make tenons and other joints.
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By means of threads, such as screw threads
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A small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting tool is held in the other.
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A bar used to loosen or tighten some types of chucks and tool holders on machine tools such as lathes or milling machines.
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A clamp that attaches a tool holder to a machine tool
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(metalworking) The part of a machine, such as a lathe, that supports the cutting tool.
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Part of a machine that grips a replaceable tool.
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A tool used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key.
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A tapering cylinder used in metalcraft, usually made of steel, used to expand or measure a ring or hole in another piece of metal up to a desired size.
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An instrument used for sampling something.
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A simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clockmakers and watchmakers.
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A support on a lathe serving as a fulcrum for a hand turning-tool.
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A tool for shaping the cutting edges of the tools used in seal engraving.
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To form something into a "v" shape, particularly as part of a welding, machining, or manufacturing process.
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A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
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One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
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Any device used to widen something; especially a drill designed to produce a hole greater than its own diameter.
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The thin, wire-like thread of metal sometimes formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening it.
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