Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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TOOL, noun [In old Law Latin, we find attile, attilia, stores, tools, implements.]
1. An instrument of manual operation, particularly such as are used by farmers and mechanics; as the tools of a joiner, cabinet maker, smith or shoemaker.
2. A person used as an instrument by another person; a word of reproach. Men of intrigue always have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.
TOOL, verb transitive To shape with a tool.