hand tool
noun
any tool or implement designed for manual operation.
hand tool
1 Americannoun
hand-tool
2
American
[hand-tool]
/ ˈhændˌtul /
verb (used with object)
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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
Visible from more than half a mile away, the oversized hand tool sits about 15 minutes from the Coachella festival grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
What would you say if I told you that you can buy the hand tool to install PEX for less than $100?
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
Bowed at any other point, the instrument reverts to being a useful, but unmusical, hand tool.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2022
The hand tool thus provoked the same value words in the 19th as in the 17th century.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
The divergence from European to an Anglo-American hand-tool design and the approximate date that it occurred can be suggested by a comparison of contemporary illustrations.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
Screw′-bolt, a bolt threaded at one end for a nut; Screw′-cut′ter, a hand-tool for cutting screws; Screw′-driv′er, an instrument for driving or turning screw-nails.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The tools they use are very primitive; the hoe being the principal hand-tool, and the plough of ancient use for animal power.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
Whatever the cause, the result did not persist long as a guide to hand-tool design.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
The economy was built around wood cutting, charcoal burning, backward animal husbandry, hand-tool agriculture, hand-craft industry, the rudiments of commerce and finance centered in trading cities.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
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