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