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play with edged tools

play with edged tools is the alternative form of play with edge-tools.

Meaning of play with edge-tools

Verb

play with edge-tools (third-person singular simple present plays with edge-tools, present participle playing with edge-tools, simple past and past participle played with edge-tools)

  1. To deal carelessly with dangerous matters.

Forms of play with edged tools

third-person singular presentplays with edged tools
present participleplaying with edged tools
past participleplayed with edged tools
pastplayed with edged tools

Questions about play with edged tools

What is play with edged tools the alternative form of?
Play with edged tools is the alternative form of play with edge-tools.

Words near play with edged tools in the dictionary

  1. play upon words
  2. play well with others
  3. play with
  4. play with a full deck
  5. play with edge-tools
  6. play with edged tools
  7. play with fire
  8. play with house money
  9. play with oneself
  10. play'd
  11. play-act

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Adapted from Wiktionary: play with edged tools (page history and authors); play with edge-tools (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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