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Mallet

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, -- used in playing croquet.

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Drumstick 76% connected

A stick with which a drum is beaten.

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Hammer 76% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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Gavel 76% connected

A gable.

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Beetle 74% connected

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

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Beetle 74% connected

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

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Beetle 92% connected

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

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Hammer 92% connected

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.

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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…

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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;…

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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…

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Cantharis noun · 78% connection

A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the…

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Chisel verb · 78% connection

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

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Clock noun · 78% connection

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).

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Colorado beetle unknown · 78% connection

A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original…

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Dachshund noun · 78% connection

small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into bu…

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Doryphora noun · 78% connection

A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.

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Drift noun · 78% connection

A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

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Drive noun · 78% connection

A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

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Drove noun · 78% connection

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

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Elater noun · 78% connection

Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of…

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Fang verb · 78% connection

A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters…

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Fingering noun · 78% connection

The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…

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Firmer-chisel noun · 78% connection

A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.

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Flea-beetle noun · 78% connection

A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea-beetle…

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Grub noun · 78% connection

The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

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