Tool

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To drive, as a coach.

II. Tool ·noun A Weapon.

III. Tool ·noun Hence, any instrument of use or service.

IV. Tool ·vt To shape, form, or finish with a tool.

V. Tool ·add. ·vt To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

VI. Tool ·noun A machine for cutting or shaping materials;

— also called machine tool.

VII. Tool ·noun 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.

VIII. Tool ·noun 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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