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A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.

That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool. South. To give a handle, to furnish an occasion or means.

r; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.

One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.

A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use. And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. Cowper.

The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.

A tool for turning over the edge of sheet metal to make a hem.

A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

also ice master. -- Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water. -- Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice. ice sculpture = a sculpture carved from a block of ice, often used for decorating restaurants. ice show an entertainment consisting of ice skaters performing figure-skating on a sheet of ice, usu…

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments. All the lofty instruments of war. Shak.

To prevent the transfer o Insulating stool (Elec.), a stool with legs of glass or some other nonconductor of electricity, used for insulating a person or any object placed upon it.

iscovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. Thus first Necessity invented stools. Cowper.

Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part. Knight.

A small machine or handy tool; esp.: (Metal Working)

A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.

A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.

t splice, a reënforce at a joint, to sustain the parts in their true relation. -- Joint stool. (a) A stool consisting of jointed parts; a folding stool. Shak. (b) A block for supporting the end of a piece at a joint; a joint chair. -- Out of joint, out of place; dislocated, as when the head of a bone slips from its s…

A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork.