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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: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Beard
noun · 78% connection
That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Bill
noun · 78% connection
A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a han…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
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: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Body
noun · 78% connection
The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
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: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Clod
noun · 78% connection
A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
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: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Ecraseur
noun · 78% connection
An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Epaule
noun · 78% connection
The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Epaulette
noun · 78% connection
A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Feed
noun · 78% connection
The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing pro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Fork
noun · 78% connection
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Guide
verb · 78% connection
Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
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: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Key
noun · 78% connection
An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Knife
noun · 78% connection
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many diff…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
Lance
noun · 78% connection
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: steel, cutting, instrument, long, bent.
