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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: edge, blade, side, handle.
Auger
noun · 78% connection
A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
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: edge, blade, side, handle.
Billhook
noun · 78% connection
A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Blunger
noun · 78% connection
A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Bolster
noun · 78% connection
That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Broadsword
noun · 78% connection
A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Chisel
noun · 78% connection
A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usuall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Clinker-built
adjective · 78% connection
Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like cla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Corncutter
noun · 78% connection
An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Drawknife
noun · 78% connection
A joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Edge
verb · 78% connection
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Feather-edged/
adjective · 78% connection
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Fineness
adjective · 78% connection
Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Flat
noun · 78% connection
The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Foible
noun · 78% connection
The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Frow
noun · 78% connection
A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
Glaive
noun · 78% connection
A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edge, blade, side, handle.
