Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tool"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tool \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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tool \Tool\, n. [OE. tol,tool. AS. t[=o]l; akin to Icel. t[=o]l,
Goth. taijan to do, to make, taui deed, work, and perhaps to
E. taw to dress leather. [root]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tool
n 1: an implement used in the practice of a vocation
2: the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was
the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us
new tools to fight disease" [syn: {instrument}]
3: a person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest
tasks for someone else [syn: {creature}, {puppet}]
4: obscene terms for penis [syn: {cock}, {prick}, {dick}, {shaft},
{pecker}, {peter}]
v 1: informal: drive (a vehicle); "The convertible tooled down
the street"
2: ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the
pleasure of it [syn: {joyride}, {tool around}]
3: furnish with tools
4: work with a tool
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