Tools

Tools for making things, and for cleaning around the house. Sometimes you need the cleaning tools because you made a mess with the making tools!

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His forHatchet

A hatchet is a small axe that is designed to be used in one hand.

His forHoe

A hoe is a tool used for moving soil around. Hoes are typically used for tilling ground before planting out crops.

Iis forIce pick

An ice pick is a tool with a pointed end that you use for breaking up a large block of ice into small chunks that you can put in your drink.
A jack is a device for lifting heavy objects off the ground by pushing them up from underneath. Jacks are used to raise things a short distance only. They are commonly used to lift one corner of a car off the ground while you change a tyre.

Jack is also a variation of the name John.

Jis forJigsaw

A jigsaw is a power tool with a thin blade that moves up and down. It can be used to make both curved or straight line cuts and is often used for detail work.

Lis forLadder

A ladder is a kind of portable staircase. Some ladders fold up, others like the one in the picture are very long and you lean them against a wall.
A lawnmower is a tool for cutting the grass in your lawn. Lawnmowers come in several different types.
Lawnmowers can be ride-on like a small car, and you drive them around over your lawn. This kind is good for really, really big lawns.
Then there are push-mowers that don't have an engine and rely on you pushing them to spin a blade that cuts the grass. This kind are hard to use and are not very common anymore.
The most common is the kind in the picture, where you push it to make it go where you want, but the blade is powered by a petrol or electric motor.

Mis forMachete

A machete is a kind of large knife that is used in tropical areas to cut through jungle or to harvest sugarcane. It is also used as a tool for cutting up food, or for carving wood.
Because machetes are so common in tropical regions they are also used as a weapon.

Mis forMallet

A mallet is a type of hammer. Mallets are often made of rubber or wood, and are used where a metal hammer will be too hard. Mallets have large heads, so they do less damage to something they hit than a smaller hammer or other tool.

Mis forMatches

A match is a small stick with chemicals at one end that catch fire if they are rubbed along a rough surface. Matches are usually sold in a matchbox or matchbook that has a rough edge on one side to strike your matches on.
Matches are used to light fires, candles and smoking devices like cigarettes.
Match can also mean things that are similar in some way.

Mis forMop

A mop is a tool similar to a broom, but instead of having hard bristles on the end it has soft, absorbent strips of rags. Mops are usually used wet to wash floors with. They are often used with special buckets that have an attachment that wrings out the mop as it is being used.
A mortar and pestle are used together for grinding things down or mashing them into a paste. They are most often used for crushing or grinding herbs for cooking. The bowl-shaped part is the mortar, and the stick you use for grinding things is the pestle. Most mortar and pestles are made of stone, clay or heavy wood.

Nis forNail

Nails are small pieces of metal with one sharp end and one end that is flat. You use nails to stick things to other things, like nailing a piece of wood to another piece of wood. You use a hammer to hit the flat end of the nails with to push them through something.
A nut is used to fasten onto the other end of a bolt to hold things together. Nuts are threaded on the inside and are screwed onto the thread at the end of the bolt.
A plane is a tool for shaving off thin layers of wood, to make something flatter or thinner. Planes are often used to make a sticky door fit better. Planes have handles on them placed so you can get the best force, and the wood itself is shaved off with an adjustable blade under the plane. Planes work best going with the grain of the wood, not across it.
As with many hand tools, you can also buy electric planes that don't require as much force to get them to work.

Pis forPliers

Pliers are a tool used for holding things, like small pieces of metal. They are similar in design to scissors. Some pliers also have a blade on them so they can be used for cutting things like wire.

Ris forRake

A rake is a set of metal or plastic teeth on the end of a long stick that is used for raking up large bits of trash on the ground. Rakes are most often used for raking fallen leaves into piles when they fall in autumn.
Sandpaper, originally called glasspaper, is paper with something rough stuck to one side. Sandpaper is used for removing old paint from things, for making wood or similar surfaces smooth, or for roughening up a surface.
There are hundreds of different varieties of sandpaper.

Sis forSaw

A saw is a tool for cutting things. The picture is of a hand saw, but there are bigger saws that are powered by an engine that can be used to cut very big pieces of wood, or even stone and concrete.

Sis forScissors

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.