hand tool
1 Americannoun
verb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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On May 9, 1933, Thompson received the patent for the cross-shaped screw head and the hand tool used to drive it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
He retrieved a backpack with water from his engine, sprayed into the ground with a couple gallons of water and dug up the dirt with his hand tool until he was satisfied it was cool.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
Bowed at any other point, the instrument reverts to being a useful, but unmusical, hand tool.
From New York Times • May 1, 2022
Meanwhile, as thousands of people turned their attention to household DIY tasks, more than 5,600 amateur builders required hospital attention after coming into contact with a electric hand tool.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2022
This hand tool for harvesting grain has not changed in design for the last thousand years.
From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.
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