Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| adz | a cutting tool with an arched blade set at right angles to the handle. |
| adze | a cutting tool with an arched blade set at right angles to the handle; (verb) to shape with an adze. |
| adzelike | like an adze. |
| auger | any of various boring tools resembling a corkscrew, used in carpentry, digging, etc. |
| averruncator | an instrument (on a pole) for pruning trees. |
| awl | a pointed tool for boring. |
| backsaw | a saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back. |
| ballpeen | as in ballpeen hammer, a type of hammer. |
| bandsaw | a power saw with a continuous blade; (verb) to saw with a bandsaw > BANDSAWED, BANDSAWING. |
| biface | a type of prehistoric stone implement flaked on both faces. |
| billhook | a tool for cutting brushwood etc. |
| bitstock | a stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace. |
| blowlamp | a portable lamp producing a jet of hot flame. |
| blowtorch | (US) a blowlamp; (verb) to apply a blowtorch to. |
| bowsaw | a saw with a thin blade in a bow-shaped frame. |
| bradawl | a small boring tool. |
| broacher | a spit; a broach. |
| brog | (Scots) an awl; (verb) to prick with an awl. |
| bucksaw | a large saw in an H-frame. |
| burin | an engraver's tool. |
| bushhammer | a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone. |
| buzzsaw | a power-operated circular saw. |
| cannel | the bevel on the edge of a chisel. |
| chainsaw | a large saw driven by a chain; (verb) to saw with a chainsaw. |
| chisel | a steel blade with the end bevelled to a cutting edge, used for shaping or working wood, stone or metal; (verb) to shape with a chisel. |
| clawhammer | a kind of hammer with a claw for extracting nails. |
| clencher | a tool for clenching. |
| crowbar | a heavy iron bar usually bent and flattened at one end, used as a lever; (verb) to prise with a crowbar. |
| drawknife | a carpentry tool. |
| drawshave | a carpentry tool. |
| eatche | (Scott) an adze. |
| edger | a tool for edging eg lawns. |
| elshin | (Scots) an awl. |
| elsin | (Scots) an awl. |
| eolith | a very early rough stone implement, or stone naturally formed but thought to be manufactured. |
| eolithic | of or like an eolith. |
| eyeleteer | a small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes. |
| fid | a conical pin of hard wood. |
| fillester | a rabbet plane used in making window sashes. |
| fillister | a rabbet plane used in making window sashes. |
| firmer | a carpenter's or woodworker's wood-cutting chisel. |
| floatcut | as in floatcut file, a file with parallel rows of teeth. No -S. |
| fretsaw | a narrow-bladed saw. |
| froe | a cleaving tool with its blade at right angles to its handle. |
| gade | a miner's wedge. |
| gaid | a miner's wedge. |
| glasscutter | a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass. |
| grattoir | (Fr.) a scraper made of flint. |
| graver | an engraving tool, a burin. |
| groover | one who or that which grooves. |
| grouter | an instrument or tool for grouting a wall etc. |
| grozing | as in grozing iron, an iron for smoothing joints between lead pipes. |
| hackle | a comb for flax or hemp; (verb) to comb with a hackle. |
| hacksaw | a type of saw; (verb) to cut with a hacksaw. |
| hammer | a tool for beating metal, breaking rock, driving nails, etc; (verb) to strike repeatedly. |
| hammerstone | a stone used as a hammer in the production of tools during the Acheulian period. |
| handax | a stone axe shaped to fit the hand. |
| handaxe | a stone axe shaped to fit the hand. |
| handglass | a magnifying glass held in the hand. |
| handsaw | a saw worked by hand. |
| hardily | (Adv.) HARDY, inured to hardship. |
| hardy | inured to hardship (noun) a blacksmith's chisel |
| hatchel | a comb for flax or hemp; (verb) to persecute. |
| heckle | a comb for flax or hemp; (verb) to interrupt a speaker. |
| helve | the handle of an axe or similar tool; (verb) to provide with a handle. |
| hoelike | like a hoe. |
| honer | a tool for honing. |
| jackhammer | a handheld compressed air rock-drill; (verb) to hammer with a jackhammer. |
| jackplane | a large woodworking plane. |
| jackscrew | a jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. |
| james | a burglar's crowbar. |
| jemmy | neat, smart (noun) a burglar's short crowbar; (verb) to lever with this |
| jimmie | a short crowbar used by burglars. |
| jimmy | a short crowbar used by burglars; (verb) to lever with this. |
| jointer | a bricklayer's tool for putting joints in mortar. |
| ko | (Maori) a digging-stick. |
| lithoclast | a stone breaker; a tool for breaking rocks. |
| lockpick | an instrument for picking locks. |
| mallet | a type of hammer. |
| marlinespike | a tool used to separate rope strands while splicing. |
| marlinspike | a tool used to separate rope strands while splicing. |
| microlith | a very small stone tool. |
| microlithic | of or like a microlith. |
| muller | a flat heavy stone or iron pulverizing tool; (verb) to inflict a severe defeat upon. |
| multitool | a device that contains various tools attached to a single handle. |
| nailfile | a file for smoothing the nails. |
| nailset | a tool for punching the head of a nail below or flush with the surface. |
| neolith | a Neolithic artefact. |
| oilstone | a stone used for sharpening tools. |
| oliver | a tilt-hammer worked with the foot by a treadle, used esp to shape nails, bolts, links of chains, etc. |
| oustiti | (Fr.) a lock-opening tool. |
| padsaw | a small sawblade with a detachable handle. |
| palaeolith | a Stone Age artefact. |
| paleolith | a Stone Age artifact. |
| palstaff | (Dutch) a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the Bronze Age. |
| palstave | (Dutch) a peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the Bronze Age. |
| paviour | a person who lays paving-stones; a machine for tamping down paving-stones. |
| peavey | a lumberman's spiked lever, a cantdog. |
| peavy | a lumberman's spiked lever. |
| peen | the end of a hammer head opposite to the face, esp when sharp; (verb) to beat thin with a hammer. |
| pein | the end of a hammer head opposite to the face, esp when sharp; (verb) to beat thin with a hammer. |
| pene | the end of a hammer head opposite to the face, esp when sharp; (verb) to beat thin with a hammer. |
| picklock | an instrument for picking locks. |
| pincer | one of the two pivoted parts of a grasping tool; (verb) to grip in pincers. |
| pinwrench | a wrench with a projection to fit a hole. |
| pitsaw | a saw used in a pit. |
| plench | a gripping, turning, and pulling hand tool for use in zero gravity. |
| plunger | an instrument or part of a mechanism which works or is worked with a plunging or thrusting movement. |
| pozidrive | having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque. |
| quannet | a flat file used like a plane. |
| rabbler | a scraping tool for smoothing metal. |
| racloir | (Fr.) a scraper. |
| rake | a toothed bar on a handle, for scraping, gathering together, smoothing, etc; (verb) to gather with a toothed implement. |
| rammer | a tool for ramming eg pavements. |
| rasp | a coarse file (verb) to rub with something rough |
| rasper | a tool used for rasping. |
| raspish | like a rasp. |
| reamer | an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc. |
| retool | to tool again. |
| riffler | a small file with curved ends used in woodworking. |
| ripsaw | a kind of saw; (verb) to cut with a ripsaw. |
| rounder | a tool for rounding. |
| router | a two-handled plane with a cutter projecting below the sole used to form and plane a groove or recess. |
| rusticana | objects such as agricultural implements, garden furniture etc made in the rustic style. No -S. |
| sandblaster | a tool for sandblasting. |
| sander | a tool for sanding. |
| saw | a cutting tool with a toothed blade; (verb) to cut with a saw. |
| sawblade | the blade of a saw. |
| sawn | (PaP.) SAW, to cut with a saw. |
| sax | a chopper for trimming slate. |
| scalper | a semicircular gouging chisel. |
| scauper | a semicircular gouging chisel. |
| scooper | a tool used esp in engraving, for hollowing out portions of the surface worked. |
| scorper | a semicircular gouging chisel. |
| scratcher | a tool for scratching. |
| screwdriver | a tool for turning screws. |
| scriber | a scribing tool; a scribe. |
| scythe | a single-bladed cutting implement; (verb) to cut with a scythe. |
| scythelike | like a scythe. |
| seamset | a tool for flattening seams in metal etc. |
| secateur | (Fr.) a cutting tool used for gardening. |
| sledgehammer | a large hammer used eg for breaking rocks; (verb) to strike with a sledgehammer. |
| sleeker | a moulding tool for smoothing over small irregularities in the mould. |
| smoother | a smoothing tool. |
| snipper | a tool for snipping. |
| snuffer | a small hollow cone with a handle used to extinguish a candle. |
| spaller | one who spalls; a tool for spalling. |
| spanner | a tool for undoing nuts. |
| spitsticker | a wood engraving tool with a fine point for cutting curved lines. |
| spud | a small narrow digging tool with a spadelike blade (verb) to dig with a spud |
| squeegee | a scraping implement consisting of a rubber-edged blade attached to the end of a handle; (verb) to clean with a squeegee. |
| stadda | a comb maker's double-bladed handsaw. |
| stillson | a kind of wrench. |
| swage | a groove; a grooved shaping tool; (verb) to use such a tool. |
| swager | one who uses a swage, a grooved shaping tool. |
| tinsnips | a pair of hand shears for cutting tin etc. |
| tjanting | (Indonesian) a small tool used for applying hot wax to fabric in batik. |
| tool | an implement used in manual work; (verb) to form or finish with a tool. |
| toolkit | a set of tools. |
| toolless | without tools. |
| tranchet | (Fr.) a chisel-shaped flint implement of some mesolithic and neolithic cultures. |
| triphammer | a power hammer that is raised or tilted by a cam and allowed to fall under gravity. |
| tweaker | an engineer's small screwdriver, used for making fine adjustments. |
| untooled | not tooled. |
| veiner | a tool used in wood carving. |
| viselike | like a vise. |
| wadder | an implement for wadding a gun. |
| waterglass | a water clock; an instrument for making observations underwater. |
| whipsaw | a narrow saw for cutting timber lengthwise; (verb) to saw with this. |
| widener | a kind of tool for widening something. |
| wimble | an instrument for boring holes; a gimlet; (verb) to bore through with a wimble. |
| zax | a chopper for trimming slate. |
| zex | a chopper for trimming slate. |