hand tool
noun
any tool or implement designed for manual operation.
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hand-tool
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[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
He retrieved a backpack with water from his engine, sprayed into the ground with a couple gallons of water and dug up the dirt with his hand tool until he was satisfied it was cool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
Bowed at any other point, the instrument reverts to being a useful, but unmusical, hand tool.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2022
Meanwhile, as thousands of people turned their attention to household DIY tasks, more than 5,600 amateur builders required hospital attention after coming into contact with a electric hand tool.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2022
He also found boots and rubber gloves, a small hand shovel, and an ordinary garden hand tool with three prongs.
From The Golden Skull by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
The simplest application of a principle of mechanics to an every-day hand-tool may convert it into what is called a machine.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
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 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 proposal to revert to the older competitive plan is reminiscent of the outcry against machine production a century earlier, and the earnest pleas then made to return to the hand-tool method.
From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake
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