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2. Hand tool - Wikipedia

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   A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor. [1] Categories of hand tools include wrenches, pliers, cutters, files, striking tools, struck or hammered tools, screwdrivers, vises, clamps, snips, hacksaws, drills, and knives. Outdoor tools such as garden forks, pruning shears, and rakes are additional forms of hand tools.

3. Pliers - Wikipedia

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   Cutting wire with diagonal pliers /side cutters. Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, possibly developed from tongs used to handle hot metal in Bronze Age Europe. [1] They are also useful for bending and physically compressing a wide range of materials. Generally, pliers consist of a pair of metal first-class levers joined at a ...

4. Tool - Wikipedia

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   Shaping tools, such as molds, jigs, trowels. Fastening tools, such as welders, soldering irons, rivet guns, nail guns, or glue guns. Some tools may be combinations of other tools. An alarm-clock is for example a combination of a measuring tool (the clock) and a perception tool (the alarm).

5. Hammer - Wikipedia

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   A modern claw hammer suited to drive and remove nails. Cartwheel mallets with heads of felt held between steel washers for use with timpani drums. Detail of the head of a war hammer. A geologist's hammer used to break up rocks, as seen in archaeology and prospecting. A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head ...

6. Mattock - Wikipedia

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   Pickaxe. A mattock (/ ˈmætək /) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines either a vertical axe blade with a horizontal adze (cutter mattock), or a pick and an adze (pick mattock). A cutter mattock is similar to a Pulaski used in fighting fires.

7. File (tool) - Wikipedia

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   For the computer software tool, see file (command). Detail of a double-cut flat file showing cutting surfaces on both wide and narrow faces. A file is a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece. It is common in woodworking, metalworking, and other similar trade and hobby tasks. Most are hand tools, made of a case hardened ...