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)
Example Sentences
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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
Some of the students, he says, “may never have held a hand tool, never used a measuring tape or a square. They have not developed skills enough to get into an apprenticeship program.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 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 machine is the symbol of the monotonous routine of impersonal, unskilled, large-scale production just as the hand tool is the token of the interesting activity of personal, skilled, handicraft work.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
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