tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocationabrader, 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 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 hack - a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil 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 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 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 (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging |