Hobbies

A protractor is a device used for measuring angles. You can get protractors as both half and full circles. Protractors are also useful for drawing angles.

A quill is a pen made from a feather, usually the wing feather of a goose. The end of the pen was dipped into a pot of ink and used for writing with.

Ribbons are thin strips of fabric. They are usually for decoration, so they are usually very pretty. Most ribbons are shiny and are only one color, but some ribbons have patterns, sparkles or are made of lace.

A ruler is a thin, hard, straight piece of plastic or wood with numbers written on the edges at even spacings. Rulers are used both for drawing straight lines, and for measuring how long things are.

Scissors are a tool used for cutting very thin things like paper and cloth. Scissors for cutting cloth are a lot sharper than scissors for cutting paper.

Secateurs, also called pruning shears, are a kind of scissor designed for cutting through the stems of plants. They have a different design to regular scissors to give them the extra strength needed to cut through wood.

A sewing machine is a device, usually powered by an electric motor, that can sew much neater and straighter than you can by hand. Modern sewing machines have lots of different stitches built into them. Some sewing machines can even connect to a computer and stitch very intricate embroidery from pictures on the computer automatically.

A sleeve is the part of a garment that covers your arm or part of your arm. Sleeves can be short, as on a t-shirt or so long they go past the end of your fingers.

A sprinkler is something you attach to the end of a hose and use to water your garden with. Sprinklers cover a wider area more evenly than you could do by hand with a hose.

A stencil is a thin sheet of cardboard, metal or plastic that has had a design cut through it. When paint is brushed or sprayed over the stencil, the paint only shows up on the surface underneath where the holes were cut. Stencils are a fast way to put a lot of the same design onto a surface.
A design that has been made from a stencil can also be called a stencil.