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Tool

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To tool a coach. To drive one; generally applied to a gentleman Jehu, who undertakes for his own amusement to drive a stage-coach. To tool is to use the tool as a workman; a coachman’s tools are the reins and whip with which he tools his coach or makes his coach go.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Tonans
Tongue of the Trump (The)
Tongues
Tonna (Mrs.)
Tonsure
Tonsures
Tontine
Tony Lumpkin
Too Many for [Me] or One too many for [me]
Tooba or Touba [eternal happiness]
Tool
Tooley Street
Toom Tabard [empty jacket]
Tooth
Tooth and Egg
Tooth and Nail
Top
Top-heavy
Top Ropes
Top-Sawyer
Topham