‘Any instrument of manual operation’ (Johnson); a mechanical implement for working upon something, as by cutting, striking, rubbing, or other…

An implement or tool of any kind. Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern dialect.

An instrument, a tool. Obsolete.

An object, device, or apparatus designed or used for a particular purpose or task. A tool, implement, or utensil used to execute a piece of work…

A device, contraption, or construction; a machine, a vehicle.

A tool or implement, esp. one used in manual labour. Cf. loom, n.1 1a.

A tool.

An instrument or tool. Obsolete. rare.

Something applied as a means to an end; a piece of apparatus. Now often: spec. a utensil or other piece of (electrical) equipment designed to…

concrete. The result of contriving; something devised or framed by art or inventive power; an invention, contrivance; esp. a mechanical…

esp. An implement or tool useful to or used by an artisan, mechanic, farmer, etc.

A convenient thing; = convenience, n. 7. A particular convenient appliance or article; a utensil; formerly, esp. a conveyance or vehicle; = conven…

An arrangement or thing in which the foregoing action or faculty is embodied; something contrived for… A mechanical device or arrangement…

A person employed to rule straight lines on paper. Cf. paper-ruler n. at paper, n. adj.compounds 2. Now rare.

In general use: an apparatus, device, instrument, or implement (now archaic and Canadian regional (Newfoundland)); an appliance; a vending…

In plural. The apparatus, set of utensils, instruments, etc., employed in any trade, or in executing any piece of work. Now chiefly in agricultural…

Gem-cutting. An instrument used to hold a gem while it is exposed to the wheel, featuring a graduated quadrant which allows the stone to be portioned…

Engineering. A device used in the cold-drawing of metal consisting of a pair of pincers mounted on a small carriage which runs on wheels along a…