Engineering. A tool for making a groove in a metal surface, typically having a linear rounded end, like a blunt chisel, and used in a pair as a top…

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Something resembling a smith's anvil in form or function.

An instrument or tool used for sprinkling or cleansing. A smith's tool: see quots.

An appliance or structure for lifting, carrying, or supporting. Cf. porteur, n. Founding. = porter bar, n.1 (now rare).

= porter bar, n.1

any smith's tool which is held upon the work while being struck, as distinct from a bottom-tool, which is socketed in the anvil.

in Metallurgy: see quot.

An iron bar extending from a heavy body to be forged, by which it may be guided beneath a hammer or into a furnace; = porter, n.2 2c.