Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A department in a well-ordered machine-shop in which tools, jigs, and gages, etc., are made, ground, or otherwise kept in order, and whence they are handed out to the men. Lockwood, Dict. Mech. Engin. Terms.

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Examples

  • The capper: At my going-away party, one tool-room engineer--a guy who had hazed me hard in the beginning--asked if I wouldn't mind talking to his son about going to college.

    Grownup Training Blank Slate Special Report: Grownup Training Brett Nelson 2006

  • In the tool-room there are five classes of from eight to fourteen boys every day.

    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 04, April, 1890 Various

  • The general tool-room work included an exhibit of seventy-one punches and dies for cartridge making.

    Women and War Work Helen Fraser

  • The next three groups included gauges, drills, cutters, punches and dies, trucks, jigs, tap pieces and general tool-room work.

    Women and War Work Helen Fraser

  • The porches purchased everything from a brace and bit to a lathe for the new tool-room and put the finishing touches to the dairy.

    Dust 1921

  • She went on into the bedroom, which had been formerly the tool-room.

    The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915

  • Lanstron turned and through the door of the tool-room saw Feller entering the sitting-room.

    The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915

  • The porches purchased everything from a brace and bit to a lathe for the new tool-room and put the finishing touches to the dairy.

    Dust Marcet Haldeman-Julius 1914

  • It is well to have the Cannas started in boxes in sunny windows, in tool-room or carriage-house, by mid-April.

    A Woman's Hardy Garden 1903

  • In the tool-room at the other end of this car was kept everything that experience could suggest or ingenuity devise for handling and removing wrecked cars, freight, or locomotives.

    Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy Kirk Munroe 1890

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