Something that rips or creates a rip; a tool or apparatus intended for ripping; esp.: †(a) a tool used by a fletcher to shape the shaft of an arrow…

A tool for cutting and trimming. Obsolete.

a sharp instrument for cutting out pinked borders; (humorously) a sword.

(a) a knife for cutting wood, esp. one used by a clogger for shaping the soles of clogs; (b) a cutting instrument pivoted on a block (cf. stock-shave…

A tool for cutting away sap-wood (see quots.).

A plough of a type specially designed to cut through ice; spec. (in early use) one used in ice harvesting to cut grooves in the ice prior to the…

A cutting tool having a bent point, used for marking timber, leather, etc. Also attributive.

A tool or machine for cutting or deepening the furrows on a millstone.

= race knife, n.

A machine for cutting pens from quills. Obsolete. rare.

A machine for cutting or shaping stone.

= twinning-saw n.

A tool for trimming the nails of a person or animal.

Originally and chiefly U.S. A machine for cutting the edges of paper; a guillotine.

The name of various instruments acting in a similar manner. A machine for cutting the edges of books, paper, straw, etc.

A milling machine; (also) a rotating cutting tool.

An implement for flaking flint.

One who undercuts; a tool or machine for undercutting.

= race knife, n. Now rare.

a person who makes linocuts; also, a tool used in lino-cutting.

a mower having several cutting edges or devices working in coordination; (now) esp. a lawnmower for cutting large areas of grass, consisting of a…

U.S. A heavy tool for splitting timber or stone.

(a) a cutting tool or machine with a blade or blades that rotates; (b) Manufacturing Technology a machine used in the rotary-cut method of producing…

a bladed implement or bill used in besom-making.

a machine that fragments scrap metal, esp. sheet metal from motor vehicles and domestic appliances; also, a business involved in such processing.