Tool (t&oomac;l),
v. i. [Cf. Tool, v. t., 2.]
To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. [Colloq.]
Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well- kept roads.
Illust. American.
Tool (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. tooled (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
tooling.]
1. To shape, form, or finish with a
tool. "Elaborately tooled." Ld.
Lytton.
2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]
Tool (?), n. [OE. tol,tool. AS. tōl; akin to
Icel. tōl, Goth. taijan to do, to make,
taui deed, work, and perhaps to E. taw
to dress leather. √64.]
1. An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like,
used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical
operations; any instrument
used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of
an instrument or machine that dresses work.
2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; --
also called machine tool.
3. Hence, any instrument of use or service.
That angry fool . . .
Whipping her horse, did with his
smarting tool
Oft whip her dainty self.
Spenser. 4. A weapon. [Obs.]
Him that is aghast of every tool.
Chaucer. 5. A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.
I was not made for a minion or a
tool.
Burks.
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