| 单词 | hand tool |
| 释义 | hand tool (once / 70775 pages) n WORD FAMILY hand tool: hand tools USAGE EXAMPLESThe task is often carried out with a bulldozer, but in areas inaccessible to heavy equipment, the break has to be cut with hand tools. Washington Times(Nov 07, 2016) MacSwain said the county will also continue using hand tools and some chemicals to fight the infestation. Washington Times(Oct 30, 2016) She had her own box of hand tools and knew how they should be used. New York Times(Oct 04, 2016) n a tool used with workers' hands Hypo|Hyper awl a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes bevel, bevel squarea hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size bodkin, threadera blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops bodkina small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric crank, startera hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle dibber, dibblea wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs filea steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal float, plasterer's floata hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco graver, graving tool, pointel, pointrela tool used by an engraver guttera tool for gutting fish hammera hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking hand shovela shovel that is operated by hand marlinespike, marlingspike, marlinspikea pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) miter box, mitre boxhand tool for guiding handsaws in making crosscuts or miter joints openera hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans) palleta hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay pestlea club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar picka thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, pincer, tweezera hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping pipe cuttera hand tool for cutting pipe pitchforka long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay carpenter's plane, plane, woodworking planea carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood pair of pliers, pliers, plyersa gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws auger, plumber's snakea long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes plumber's helper, plungerhand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains ravehooka hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum sandblastera tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces sawhand tool having a toothed blade for cutting scraperany of various hand tools for scraping screwdrivera hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw shovela hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle soldering irona hand tool with a heatable tip; used to melt and apply solder spatulaa hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances spreadera hand tool for spreading something squarea hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles straightedgehand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) tire iron, tire toolhand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel trowela small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials weed-whacker, weedera hand tool for removing weeds wire strippera hand tool used by electricians to remove insulation from the cut end of an insulated wire spanner, wrencha hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt adjustable spanner, adjustable wrenchcan be changed to different settings Allen wrencha wrench for Allen screws alligator wrencha wrench with a v-shaped jaw and serrations on one side (resembles the open jaws of an alligator) ball-peen hammera hammer with one round and one flat end; used in working metal beading planea plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork bill, billhooka long-handled saw with a curved blade block planea small plane used on end grains of wood blunt filea file with parallel edges bottle openeran opener for removing caps or corks from bottles box end wrench, box wrencha wrench with a closed loop (a socket) that fits over a nut or bolt head brace wrencha wrench shaped like a brace (has a handle shaped like a crank) and a socket head bradawl, prickeran awl for making small holes for brads or small screws bricklayer's hammera hammer used in laying bricks brick trowel, mason's trowela trowel used in masonry bucksawa saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck bulldog wrencha wrench designed to provide a firm grip on something bullnose, bullnosed planea small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front can opener, tin openera device for cutting cans open carpenter's hammer, claw hammer, clawhammera hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails carpenter's squarea steel square used by carpenters; larger than a try square carriage wrencha wrench designed for use with carriage bolts chamfer planea plane that makes a beveled edge circular plane, compass planea plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces coal shovela hand shovel for shoveling coal combination planea woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes crank handle, starting handlecrank used to start an engine crown sawa saw having teeth around the edge of a hollow cylinder dog wrencha wrench with a handle shaped like a crank dovetail planea woodworking plane designed to make the grooves for dovetail joints entrenching tool, trenching spadea hand shovel carried by infantrymen for digging trenches flat filea file with two flat surfaces flat tip screwdrivera screwdriver with a flat wedge-shaped tip that fits into a slot in the head of a screw folding sawa saw with a toothed blade that folds into a handle (the way a pocketknife folds) fore planea carpenter's plane intermediate between a jack plane and a jointer plane garden trowela trowel used by gardeners hack saw, hacksaw, metal sawsaw used with one hand for cutting metal carpenter's saw, hand saw, handsawa saw used with one hand for cutting wood hook spanner, hook wrencha wrench with a hook that fits over a nut or bolt head ice pick, icepickpick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice jack planea carpenter's plane for rough finishing jointer, jointer plane, jointing plane, long planea long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together latchstringopener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside locking plierspliers that can be locked in place lug wrencha wrench with jaws that have projecting lugs to engage the object that is to be rotated beetle, malleta tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing match plane, tonguing and grooving planea plane having cutters designed to make the tongues and grooves on the edges of matchboards maul, sledge, sledgehammera heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges nailfilea small flat file for shaping the nails needlenose plierssmall pliers with long thin jaws for fine work open-end wrench, tappet wrencha wrench having parallel jaws at fixed separation (often on both ends of the handle) openside plane, rabbet planea woodworking plane designed to cut rabbets palette knifea spatula used by artists for mixing or applying or scraping off oil paints Phillips screwdrivera screwdriver for use with Phillips screws pin wrencha wrench that has a projecting pin that fits into a socket on the object to be turned plastering trowela trowel used to spread and smooth plaster percussor, plessor, plexor(medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes pointing trowela trowel used to fill and finish masonry joints with mortar or cement post-hole digger, posthole diggera shovel used to sink postholes pump-type pliersa type of pliers putty knifea spatula used to mix or apply putty rasp, wood filea coarse file with sharp pointed projections rat-tail filea thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat rib joint pliersa type of pliers roach clip, roach holdermetal tweezers used by marijuana smokers to hold a roach round filea file with a circular cross section; used to file the inside of holes router planea woodworking plane with a narrow cutting head that will make grooves with smooth bottoms scauper, scorpera graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal scoop, scoop shovelthe shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe screw keya wrench for turning a screw scratch awl, scribe, scribera sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut scrub planea narrow woodworking plane used to cut away excess stock slicea spatula for spreading paint or ink slicka trowel used to make a surface slick slip-joint plierspliers with a joint adjustable to two positions in order to increase the opening of the jaws smooth plane, smoothing planea small plane for finish work socket wrencha wrench with a handle onto which sockets of different sizes can be fitted spadea sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot sparkplug wrencha wrench for removing or tightening spark plugs into the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine ratchet screwdriver, spiral ratchet screwdrivera screwdriver with a ratchet (so the blade turns in only one direction) and a spiral in the handle (so the blade rotates) with downward pressure on the handle spokeshavea small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) spud, stump spuda sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds tack hammera light hammer that is used to drive tacks taper filea file with converging edges tap wrencha wrench for turning a tap to create an internal screw thread toothpickpick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth torque wrencha wrench that has a gauge that indicates the amount of torque being applied try squarea square having a metal ruler set at right angles to another straight piece T-squarea square used by draftsmen to draw parallel lines lumberman's saw, two-handed saw, two-man saw, whipsawa saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people tool an implement used in the practice of a vocation |
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