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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: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Back
noun · 78% connection
The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Basil
noun · 78% connection
The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Bowline
noun · 78% connection
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Brick
verb · 78% connection
To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Brink
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
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: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Burnish
adjective · 78% connection
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to bur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Burr
noun · 78% connection
The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Calk
verb · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
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: tool, polish, edge, sole.
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: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Curbstone
noun · 78% connection
A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Edge
verb · 78% connection
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Edgewise
adverb · 78% connection
With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
Enmanche
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, polish, edge, sole.
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: tool, polish, edge, sole.