Phrase guide

edge tool

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A tool or weapon with a sharpened edge or blade.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Examples

  • 1577, Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: John Hunne, Volume 2, “Of the Marueyles of Englande,” Chapter 18, There is a Well [...] in Wales, which is sayde to double or trible, the force of any edge toole that is quenched in the same.
  • c. 1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The Honest Man’s Fortune, Act II, Scene 1, in Comedies and tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1647, I am glad he’s gon, for I do not love to see a sword drawn in the hand of a man that lookes so furious, ther’s no jesting with edge tooles, how say you Captaine?

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noun

Meaning 2

any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cutter, cutlery, cutting tool

Narrower terms: adz, adze, ax, axe, chisel, gouge, hand ax, hand axe, hob, knife, pick, pickax, pickaxe, plane, carpenter's plane, woodworking plane, razor, scissors, pair of scissors, scythe, shear, sickle, reaping hook, reap hook, wire cutter

History

Etymology

From Middle English egge tool.