TOOL, n. In old Law Latin, we find attile, attilia, stores, tools, implements.

1. An instrument of manual operation, particularly such as are used by farmers and mechanics as the tools of a joiner, cabinet maker, smith or shoemaker.
2. A person used as an instrument by another person a word of reproach. Men of intrigue always have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.

TOOL, To shape with a tool.