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• abrader, abradant go
  a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing
  
• bender go
  a tool for bending
  
• clincher go
  a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets
  
• comb go
  any of several tools for straightening fibers
  
• cutting implement go
  a tool used for cutting or slicing
  
• drill go
  a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
  
• eolith go
  a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint)
  
• fork go
  an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging
  
• gang go
  tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
  
• garden tool, lawn tool go
  used for working in gardens or yards
  
• grapple, grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron go
  a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding
  
• hack go
  a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
  
• hand tool go
  a tool used with workers' hands
  
• hoe go
  a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
  
• jack go
  tool for exerting pressure or lifting
  
• Jaws of Life go
  hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside
  
• neolith go
  a stone tool from the Neolithic Age
  
• paleolith go
  a stone tool from the Paleolithic age
  
• muller, pestle, pounder go
  a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
  
• plow, plough go
  a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
  
• power tool go
  a tool driven by a motor
  
• punch, puncher go
  a tool for making holes or indentations
  
• rake go
  a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head
  
• ram go
  a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
  
• rounder go
  a tool for rounding corners or edges
  
• saw set go
  a tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward
  
• shaping tool go
  a tool for shaping metal
  
• strickle go
  a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
  
• style, stylus go
  a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
  
• tamp, tamper, tamping bar go
  a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
  
• tap go
  a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
  
• upset, swage go
  a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging