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English
Etymology
From Middle English egge tool
Noun
edge tool (plural edge tools)
- (archaic) A tool or weapon with a sharpened edge or blade.
- 1577, Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: John Hunne, Volume 2, “Of the Marueyles of Englande,” Chapter 18,
- There is a Well in Wales, which is sayde to double or trible, the force of any edge toole that is quenched in the same.
- c. 1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The Honest Man’s Fortune, Act II, Scene 1, in Comedies and tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1647,
- I am glad he’s gon, for I do not love to see a sword drawn in the hand of a man that lookes so furious, ther’s no jesting with edge tooles, how say you Captaine?
1772, David Garrick, The Irish Widow, London: T. Becket, Act II, p. 47:Your hard usage has sharpen’d your Nephew’s wits, therefore beware, don’t play with edge-tools—you’ll only cut your fingers.
1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 29, in David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, page 307:“ […] I told you she took every thing, herself included, to a grindstone, and sharpened it. She is an edge-tool, and requires great care in dealing with. […] ”
1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 10, in A Wizard of Earthsea, New York: Bantam, published 1975, page 170:[…] children are not given their true name during the Fallows, and no Deeds are sung, nor swords nor edge-tools sharpened, nor oaths sworn.