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noun

Tool n.

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

A machine for cutting or shaping materials; also called machine tool.

Hence, any instrument of use or service. "That angry fool... Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self."

A weapon. (Obs.) "Him that is aghast of every tool."

A person used as an instrument by another person; a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes. "I was not made for a minion or a tool."

verb

Tool v. t. (past & past part. tooled; pres. part. tooling)

To shape, form, or finish with a tool. "Elaborately tooled."

To drive, as a coach. (Slang, Eng.)

Tool v. i. To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. (Colloq.) "Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads."

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Etymology of 'Tool'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tool" Quotes from Famous Books

... rather than nothing. There's the garden-roller over there by the tool-shed. Go and get it, and roll ...

— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell

... brave men of days of old, Whereof many a tale is told, Bathed the whiting of the shield, In wounds' house on battle-field; But the honour-missing fool, Both sides of his slaying tool, Since faint heart his hand made vain. With ...

— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris

... the ground at such a distance in front of the rifle as to hold the rope taut. Then both men proceeding to the rear of the tent, each pins down a corner, stretching the sides and rear of the tent taut before driving the pin in. The rear-rank man next inserts an intrenching tool or a bayonet, in its scabbard, under the rear end of the tent, the front rank man pegging down the end of the guy rope. The rest of the pins are then driven by both men, the rear-rank man ...

— The Plattsburg Manual - A Handbook for Military Training • O.O. Ellis and E.B. Garey

... was accustomed to carry with him, and striking the ground above the diggers, it caved the earth in, and they were all buried. "Aha," said he, "why do you wish to hinder me on my way to kill the Sun? A'-nier ti-tik'-a-nump kwaik-ai'-gar" (fighting is my eating tool I say; that's so!), and he proceeded on his way musing. "I have started out to kill; vengeance is my work; every one I meet will be an enemy. It is well; no one shall escape ...

— Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians • John Wesley Powell

... when a fellow really has a lot of trouble he'd rather tell a girl than anybody else. You can laugh at girls, but that's true. Maybe they can't run and all that, but they kind of know all about it when you have a lot of trouble. Maybe I'd tell them, tool because they'd wonder if Westy didn't come to ...

— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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