tool

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it

   We tooled down the street

2. 2
   verb

   drive

   The convertible tooled down the street

3. 3
   noun

   Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

   Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.

4. 4
   noun

   Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

   Idleness is a tool of the devil.

5. 5
   noun

   A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

   The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.

6. 6
   noun

   A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.

   She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.

7. 7
   noun

   A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).

   a five-tool player

8. 8
   noun

   A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.

   Or haue wee some strange Indian with the great Toole, come to Court, the women so besiege vs?

Etymology

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres us…