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Tool   /tul/   Listen
Tool

noun
1.
An implement used in the practice of a vocation.
2.
The means whereby some act is accomplished.  Synonym: instrument.  "Science has given us new tools to fight disease"
3.
A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else.  Synonyms: creature, puppet.
4.
Obscene terms for penis.  Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, peter, prick, putz, shaft.
verb
(past & past part. tooled; pres. part. tooling)
1.
Drive.
2.
Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.  Synonyms: joyride, tool around.
3.
Furnish with tools.
4.
Work with a tool.



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"Tool" Quotes from Famous Books



... not afraid of Hank, or his tool Del Pinzo, and I'd just as soon either one would know what ...
— The Boy Ranchers in Camp - or The Water Fight at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... who had gone back to scraping the chin of the famous public man on whose bust he was at work, stabbed him to the heart with his modeling-tool, and turned to Ferris and his friend. He slanted his broad red beard for a sidelong look at the picture, and said: "I know what you mean, Ferris. It's hard, and it's feeble in some ways and it looks a little too much like experimenting. But ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... or commanded by superiors, or made by any circumstance convenient to be done; our Christian liberty consists in this, that we have leave to do them. And, indeed, it is so far from being a sin, that it would be so to refuse so to do.' Could the state have selected a fitter tool for their purposes? ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... Tool-Holder.—It is made of hard Maple. In it are neatly packed 20 cast steel tools. It can be carried in the pocket, and yet the tools it contains are so many and so varied, and of such convenient size, as to make it almost a necessity to any boy or to ...
— The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 - A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers • Various
... the tool once more and locked his hands together. "You have been trying?" he repeated. The tension, like the grip of his hands, was ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster


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