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dry-tool

dry-tool verb: to climb bare rock using ice climbing equipment.

Verb

dry-tool (third-person singular simple present dry-tools, present participle dry-tooling, simple past and past participle dry-tooled)

  1. To climb bare rock using ice climbing equipment.
  2. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse without lubricant.

Forms of dry-tool

third-person singular presentdry-tools
present participledry-tooling
past participledry-tooled
pastdry-tooled

Questions about dry-tool

What does dry-tool mean?
Dry-tool means to climb bare rock using ice climbing equipment.
What part of speech is dry-tool?
Dry-tool is a verb.
What is the past tense of dry-tool?
The past tense of dry-tool is dry-tooled.

Words near dry-tool in the dictionary

  1. dry-salts
  2. dry-shod
  3. dry-stone
  4. dry-stone dyke
  5. dry-stone dykes
  6. dry-tool
  7. dry-weather tire
  8. dry-weather tyre
  9. dry-weather tyres
  10. dryable
  11. dryad

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