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Adze
noun · 78% connection
A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Aiguille
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Bit
verb · 78% connection
A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its len…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Bore
verb · 78% connection
To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Boring
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Broach
noun · 78% connection
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Burin
noun · 78% connection
The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Bushing
noun · 78% connection
The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Centrebit
noun · 78% connection
An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Contourne'
adjective · 78% connection
Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Countersink
noun · 78% connection
A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Drawbore
noun · 78% connection
A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the sh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Hammer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a ha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Handling
noun · 78% connection
A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Mallet
noun · 78% connection
A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
Nicker
verb · 78% connection
The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the ho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: carpenter, tool, boring, holes, larger.
