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verb

Implement v. t.

To accomplish; to fulfill. (R.) "Revenge... executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown."

To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements. "The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following."

(Scots Law) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.

noun

Implement n. That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, tool, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. "Genius must have talent as its complement and implement."

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Etymology of 'Implement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Implement" Quotes from Famous Books

... was in shape similar to the letter L, the shank of which went through the wooden beam, and the foot formed the point which was sharpened for operation. One handle and a plank split from the side of a winding block of timber, which did duty for the mould-board, completed the implement. Besides provisions for a year, I think each family had issued to them a plough-share and coulter, a set of dragg-teeth, a log chain, an axe, a saw, a hammer, a bill hook and a grubbing hoe, a pair of hand-irons and a cross-cut saw amongst ...

— History of Farming in Ontario • C. C. James

... overcome with fatigue, and at the same time fearing that I might be pursued and taken, I felt my life an almost insupportable burthen. I sat down with my child at the spring, and he and I made a breakfast of the little cake, and water of the spring, which I dipped and supped with the only implement which I possessed, ...

— A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison • James E. Seaver

... knife, razor, or whatever implement is used is perfectly clean (sterilized) and avoid drawing blood. If this happens, use some antiseptic. Cases of blood-poisoning that have resulted fatally have been caused by such wounds. If you wear colored hose, have them ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... beam should [Page 28] then be weighted with two large stones, attached firmly by a rope, about eighteen inches above the harpoon. At about six inches from the other end of the log a notch should be cut, having its flat side uppermost, as shown plainly in our illustration. The implement is now ready. ...

— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson

... turning keys from the wrong side of the door, but the implement is not so easy of manipulation as it might be. Raffles for one preferred a sharp knife and the corner of the panel. You go through the panel because that is thinnest, of course in the corner nearest the key, and you use a knife when you can, because it makes least noise. ...

— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

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