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toolmaking

toolmaking noun: the art or craft of a toolmaker; the manufacture of tools.

Noun

toolmaking (uncountable)

  1. The art or craft of a toolmaker; the manufacture of tools.
    • Either that, or “you have two different groups of hominins with two totally different toolmaking traditions occupying the same landscape at the same time yet never intermixing,” said the study’s lead author, Daniel Adler, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut.2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014

Origin of toolmaking

From tool + making.

Questions about toolmaking

What does toolmaking mean?
Toolmaking means the art or craft of a toolmaker; the manufacture of tools.
What part of speech is toolmaking?
Toolmaking is a noun.

Words near toolmaking in the dictionary

  1. Toolleen
  2. toolless
  3. toollike
  4. toolmaker
  5. toolmakers
  6. toolmaking
  7. toolman
  8. toolmark
  9. toolmarked
  10. toolmarking
  11. toolmarkings

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