Rabbler: alternatives and connections

To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

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

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…

A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a…

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…

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, e…

To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or t…

A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or ha…

To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or…

A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.

A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.

A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.

machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool

A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron…