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A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
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Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
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One skilled in the use of machine tools.
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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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The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.
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Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.
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To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.
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To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
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Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.
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A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
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A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
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Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
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One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
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A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments.
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A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.
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A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.
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Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
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That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
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A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.
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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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