TOOLS
NOUNS
1205 ► EDGE a cutting weapon or tool → poetic usage
17C.. ► ST. HUGH’S BONES shoemaker’s tools → sl.
1824 ► YEEKIE-YAKIE a wooden tool, blunted like a wedge, with which shoemakers polish the edges and bottoms of soles → Sc.
1863 ► ANCHOR a pick-axe → sl.
1881 ► TOMMY a spanner; a screwdriver
1885 ► GALLITRAP a badly-made tool, implement, etc.; a contrivance → Eng. dial.
1898 ► ALLS belongings, goods and chattels, esp. workmen’s tools → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
L19.. ► APRIL FOOLS tools → rhyming sl.
1905 ► TEWTRUMS odds and ends; pieces of finery; all sorts of small tools → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TINKERMENTS odds and ends, fittings, tools; complicated pieces of machinery, etc. → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1919 ► MAD MICK a pick (pickaxe) → rhyming sl., orig. Aust.
1923 ► ARMSTRONG a tool or machine operated or serviced by muscular strength rather than machinery; a hand-stoked locomotive → Amer. sl.
1930 ► PAIR OF FOOTPRINTS a pipe-wrench → Aust. sl.
1950 ► YO-YO a grass or weed cutter → Amer. dial.
1958 ► BOY’S AX a term of contempt for any tool to small to do a job properly → Amer. dial.
1961 ► DITTY a new tool or contrivance; a thing, something unfamiliar → Amer. dial.
1970 ► BITES pliers → Amer. dial.
1977 ► YANKEE a tool used by car thieves to pull out the cylinder of the ignition lock → UK sl.
1983 ► HOSPITAL HOLD an unsafe grip on a tool → US sl.
1992 ► DUKE OF ARGYLE a file (tool) → UK rhyming sl.
1998 ► PADDY AND MICK a pickaxe → UK rhyming sl.
1999 ► BUSINESS END the point of a tool or weapon (Bk.)
VERBS
1457 ► MAN-HANDLE to handle or wield a tool → obs.
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