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noun

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.

A machine for cutting or shaping materials; also called machine tool.

Hence, any instrument of use or service. "That angry fool... Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self."

A weapon. (Obs.) "Him that is aghast of every tool."

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. "I was not made for a minion or a tool."

verb

Tool v. t. (past & past part. tooled; pres. part. tooling)

To shape, form, or finish with a tool. "Elaborately tooled."

To drive, as a coach. (Slang, Eng.)

Tool v. i. To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. (Colloq.) "Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads."

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Etymology of 'Tool'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tool" Quotes from Famous Books

... the next day that Mistress Penwick arose and would prepare her for a ride to the village, when Janet told her of the imprisonment imposed upon her for safety. She at once became angry and accused her nurse of being a traitor and tool for Lord Cedric. ...

— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne

... poor service ye'll get from him, Mr Frank, if I may be allowed to speak out my mind. He's drawn you into the mire again already, that's plain enough. Oh, dear mayster, I cannot hold my tongue—I must and I will speak plain to you. If you let this man serve you as he's doing now, he'll just make a tool on you for his own purposes, till he's squeezed every drop of goodness out of you, and left you like a dry stick as is fit for ...

— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson

... shillings a week, on the one side, and made-dishes, wine, a fine house and a footman on the other side, he chose the latter. He became the servile Editor of CANNING'S Anti-jacobin newspaper; and he, who had more wit and learning than all the rest of the writers put together, became the miserable tool in circulating their attacks upon everything that was hostile to a system which he deplored and detested. But he secured the made-dishes, the wine, the footman and the coachman. A sinecure as 'clerk of the Foreign Estreats,' ...

— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett

... was well investigated. Almost every kind of tool and implement was found here in profusion, but singularly, none of them appeared to be used. Several flint lock guns, all rusted, and with decayed stocks, were among the articles discovered, but the Korinos had ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay

... the same manner, however feebly and coarsely: but her innate self-respect and modesty had preserved her from the snares of such clumsy poachers; and more than one good-looking young preacher had fled desperately from a station where, instead of making a tool of Grace Harvey, he could only madden his own foolish heart ...

— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley

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