Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any box which is used to contain workmen's tools.
  • noun An English term for the holder of the steel cutting-tool on the carriage of machine-tools, such as lathes, planers, shapers, slotters, etc. It is often used to cover all parts having a feed-function above the saddle which runs on the ways of the bed of the machine.

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Examples

  • In the tool-box by the drum he found an old monkey-wrench and a short bar of iron, also a coil of fairly new Manila rope.

    The Banks of the Sacramento 2010

  • Putting one more tool in a tool-box that no one was using would have been great politics, but it would not have prevented the crisis from unfolding the way it did.

    Think Progress » Graham Falsely Claims GOP Has Only Used Reconciliation With ‘Bipartisan Support’ 2010

  • It never considered the pre-existence of the tool-box genes, thus had no classification under either RM or NS to account for this reality.

    Bird Teeth 2008

  • The tool-box itself has been repainted using an old model which has three compartments in which one must rummage to find that which one seeks.

    Archive 2007-10-28 2007

  • The tool-box itself has been repainted using an old model which has three compartments in which one must rummage to find that which one seeks.

    In Hubris, Veritas 2007

  • By way of contrast, the steps outlined by President Obama in Prague -- steps his administration has moved to carry out in the ensuing months -- represent a "full tool-box" approach of aggressive multilateral diplomatic efforts to control the spread and use of nuclear weapons.

    Frida Berrigan: Pro-Nuclear Pundits Debunked 2009

  • The varied, less than perfect endogenous design elements generated under stress account for most significant (non-recombinant) in-species variation, while manipulation of major tool-box genes and expression details accounts biodiversity and major evolution.

    A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers 2007

  • All that has changed is the order in which they are put into the tool-box.

    In Hubris, Veritas 2007

  • September 14, 2009 at 4:37 pm the bomb was in the red tool-box.

    No, no, you go on. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • All that has changed is the order in which they are put into the tool-box.

    Archive 2007-10-28 2007

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