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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tool \Tool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {tooling}.] 1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. "Elaborately tooled." --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster] 2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), v. i. [Cf. {Tool}, v. t., 2.] To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. [Colloq.] Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads. --Illust. American. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tool \Tool\ (t[=oo]l), n. [OE. tol,tool. AS. t[=o]l; akin to Icel. t[=o]l, Goth. taijan to do, to make, taui deed, work, and perhaps to E. taw to dress leather. [root]64.] 1. An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work. [1913 Webster] 2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called {machine tool}. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, any instrument of use or service. [1913 Webster] That angry fool . . . Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. A weapon. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Him that is aghast of every tool. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes. [1913 Webster] I was not made for a minion or a tool. --Burks. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: tool n 1: an implement used in the practice of a vocation 2: the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease" [syn: {instrument}, {tool}] 3: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: {creature}, {tool}, {puppet}] 4: obscene terms for penis [syn: {cock}, {prick}, {dick}, {shaft}, {pecker}, {peter}, {tool}, {putz}] v 1: drive; "The convertible tooled down the street" 2: ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" [syn: {joyride}, {tool}, {tool around}] 3: furnish with tools 4: work with a tool From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: tool 1. n.A program used primarily to create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose {app}, {operating system}; see also {toolchain}. 2. [Unix] An application program with a simple, ?transparent? (typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see {filter}, {plumbing}). 3. [MIT: general to students there] vi. To work; to study (connotes tedium). The TMRC Dictionary defined this as ?to set one's brain to the grindstone?. See {hack}. 4. n. [MIT] A student who studies too much and hacks too little. (MIT's student humor magazine rejoices in the name Tool and Die.) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: TOOL [conference on] Technology of Object-Orientated Languages and Systems (OOP, conference)