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A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

s that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods.

A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt. Sir W. Scott.

A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

. Ratchet brace (Mech.), a boring brace, having a ratchet wheel and pawl for rotating the tool by back and forth movements of the brace handle. -- Ratchet drill, a portable machine for working a drill by hand, consisting of a hand lever carrying at one end a drill holder which is revolved by means of a ratchet wheel a…

To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.

A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. Elmes.

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use. Herbert.

ny form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay.

ch anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work. He made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. 1 Kings vi. 6.

tion in speed and of reverse. It is especially suitable for use with motor driven machine tools.

almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal. Earle.

A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.

A tool for making an edge or surface round.