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• Masonry [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Metalworking [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Woodworking [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Adze [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Axe [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Awl [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chisel (tool) [r]: A cutting tool for making grooves or sometimes thinning a surface, often in wood but, with specialized designs, in metal or stone [e]
• File (tool) [r]: A tool, covered with grooves and raised cutting edges, used to shave hard material such as metal [e]
• Drill (tool) [r]: A tool for making holes in solid material, usually by rotating a replaceable cutter, called a bit, against the work [e]
• Knife [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Plane (tool) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Punch (tool) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rasp (tool) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Reamer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Saw [r]: A tool for cutting lines or planes in material, using an abrasive surface, perhaps shaped into mechanical teeth adapted for a specific application [e]
• Scriber (tool) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Scythe [r]: An agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops. [e]
• Sickle [r]: An agricultural tool consisting of a curved blade with a short, one-hand handle attached. [e]

• Lathe [r]: A stationary power tool that spins the material to be worked, as cutting, polishing or other tools are applied to it [e]
• Milling machine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jointer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Router (tool) [r]: A high-speed rotating power tool, differing from a drill in that it is primarily intended to make grooves in the surface or edge of material, rather than cutting holes through it [e]
• Shaper [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Edged weapon [r]: A muscle-powered weapon that relies on the principle of the wedge, which may be applied as a single movement (e.g., a sword thrust) or after the accumulation of energy (e.g., an arrow released by drawing a bow) [e]