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n. (artifact) | 1. tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| ~ abrader, abradant | a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing. |
| ~ bender | a tool for bending.; "he used pliers as a bender" |
| ~ clincher | a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets. |
| ~ comb | any of several tools for straightening fibers. |
| ~ cutting implement | a tool used for cutting or slicing. |
| ~ drill | a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows). |
| ~ eolith | a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools. |
| ~ fork | an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs. |
| ~ gang | tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together. |
| ~ garden tool, lawn tool | used for working in gardens or yards. |
| ~ grapnel, grapple, grappling hook, grappling iron, grappler | a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope. |
| ~ hack | a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil. |
| ~ hand tool | a tool used with workers' hands. |
| ~ hoe | a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle. |
| ~ implement | instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end. |
| ~ jack | tool for exerting pressure or lifting. |
| ~ jaws of life | hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside. |
| ~ neolith | a stone tool from the Neolithic Age. |
| ~ paleolith | a stone tool from the Paleolithic age. |
| ~ pestle, pounder, muller | a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone. |
| ~ plow, plough | a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing. |
| ~ power tool | a tool driven by a motor. |
| ~ punch, puncher | a tool for making holes or indentations. |
| ~ rake | a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil. |
| ~ ram | a tool for driving or forcing something by impact. |
| ~ rounder | a tool for rounding corners or edges. |
| ~ saw set | a tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward. |
| ~ shaping tool | a tool for shaping metal. |
| ~ strickle | a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand. |
| ~ stylus, style | a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving.; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus" |
| ~ tamp, tamper, tamping bar | a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.). |
| ~ tap | a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads. |
| ~ swage, upset | a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging. |
n. (act) | 2. instrument, tool | the means whereby some act is accomplished.; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease" |
| ~ means, way, agency | how a result is obtained or an end is achieved.; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success" |
n. (person) | 3. creature, puppet, tool | a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else. |
| ~ slave | a person who is owned by someone. |
n. (body) | 4. cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, putz, shaft, tool | obscene terms for penis. |
| ~ penis, phallus, member | the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism). |
| ~ dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, filth, smut | an offensive or indecent word or phrase. |
v. (motion) | 5. tool | drive.; "The convertible tooled down the street" |
| ~ drive | operate or control a vehicle.; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?" |
| ~ joyride, tool around, tool | ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.; "We tooled down the street" |
v. (motion) | 6. joyride, tool, tool around | ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.; "We tooled down the street" |
| ~ driving | the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal. |
| ~ ride | be carried or travel on or in a vehicle.; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" |
| ~ tool | drive.; "The convertible tooled down the street" |
v. (possession) | 7. tool | furnish with tools. |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
v. (creation) | 8. tool | work with a tool. |
| ~ work on, work, process | shape, form, or improve a material.; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal" |
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