Brad awl: alternatives and connections

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…

A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e.…

A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brin…

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes…

To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper…

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

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…

A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve,…

A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

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…

A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.

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…

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.

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…

Straight forward; in a straight direction.

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar…