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The Meaning of 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.
  • (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
  • (n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.
  • (n.) A weapon.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
  • (v. t.) To drive, as a coach.

Synonyms

dick , instrument , cock , putz , puppet , prick , shaft , creature , pecker , peter , instrumental role , musical instrument , legal document , legal instrument , cat's-paw , pawn , official document , brute , animate being , fauna , marionette , animal , beast , wight , beam , pricking , dig , turncock , light beam , gumshoe , mother fucker , incision , neb , cocksucker , dickhead , rotating shaft , quill , shaft of light , slit , barb , ray of light , shit , beak , bastard , hawkshaw , scape , slam , son of a bitch , diaphysis , bill , scratch , calamus , lance , peckerwood , stopcock , asshole , spear , rooster , gibe , hammer , beam of light , jibe , irradiation , motherfucker , woodpecker , whoreson , dent , nib , ray , shot , tool around , joyride , apparatus , implement , machine , utensil , appliance , mechanism , weapon

Homophones

toole , tuel , tuell , tulle , tuyle

Rhymes

abdul , apostolopoul , baiul , bellefeuille , blackpool , boole , boule , bruehl , brule , buehl , buel , buhl , cesspool , claypool , cool , coole , cruel , drogoul , drool , dual , duell , dule , fool , fuel , ghoul , gurule , home-school , hoole , istanbul , jewel , joule , juel , jule , liverpool , luelle , makhoul , mccool , minuscule , misrule , molecule , muehl , mule , overrule , pool , poole , poul , preschool , rahul , rantoul , raoul , raul , retool , reul , reule , rhule , ridicule , ruel , rule , saccule , school , schuele , spool , sproule , sproull , spruell , spruiell , spruill , stool , supercool , thule , toole , tuel , tuell , tulle , tuyle , vestibule , vipul , whirlpool , yuill , yuille , yule