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Paring chisel used by the marquetry and violin maker to cut the groove into which an inlay will be placed. It has a blade with a rectangular cross section that is bent at the end, which is sharpened at right angles. [MOT]

Vegetables are peeled with a paring knife. It is a small (approx. 16-18 cm) and light (approx. 20-25 gr) knife with a smooth edge, which lies easily in the hand. The blade can take different shapes: it can look like a mini French cook's knife, the edge can be straight or curved, but it always has a sharp point to remove pits. The handle can be wood or plastic. A special model consists of a paring knife with a movable guide. Sometimes the paring knife is combined with a bottleopener. [MOT]

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Wooden, stainless steel or plastic spoon with long handle (approx. 25 cm) and 8-10 blunt teeth (approx. 2-3 cm) for removing spaghetti from the boiling water and draining it. Some models have an opening in the center of the spoon. The pasta spoon is placed in the pan of the freshly cooked spaghetti and turned around so that the teeth take the strings of spaghetti with them. Take it all over the pan to let it drain. See also spaghetti tongs used after draining spaghetti in a colander. [MOT]

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With a pastry blender you can quickly make a crumbly mass from flour and pieces of butter, without this mixture getting hot, for eg crust or shortcrust pastry. It consists of six relatively flexible steel wires that are bent in a U-shape; between the ends there is a wooden or plastic handle, which is sometimes provided with a thumb rest. By moving the pastry blender up and down in the mass, the ingredients are mixed and the pieces of butter or fat finely divided. Instead of the wires, there can also be various steel blades with a curved cut. These are rigid and therefore better suited for cutting hard chunks of fat. See also the dough grater. [MOT]

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This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/peat-scyte?lang=nl>

After the field has been mowed with the peat scythe or toothed sickle and the turf removed with the paring spade, the peat-cutter uses the peat spade to cut peat, which after drying is used as fuel or fertilizer. It is an iron blade spade (approx. 15 x 20 cm), with one or two raised edges, which is slightly curved (approx. 10-25 °) in relation to a knob or T-handle (75-120 cm) ). The cut of the blade can be straight or pointed and, like the spade, is inserted vertically (1) (approx. 20-25 cm) into the ground. The result is a clod in the shape of a parallelepiped (approx. 20 x 15 x 10 cm). The raised edges serve, in addition to cutting the peat, to keep the clod together. [MOT] (1) A spade is used to cut peat horizontally. (HOVE: 23; BORCHGREVINK: 70).

An oven peel is a wooden or metal hand tool (approx. 175-265 cm long) with an oval or rectangular blade (approx. 15-35 cm wide) on a long handle with which the baker used to oven the bread. The handle is long so that you can reach the back of the oven. [MOT]

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This text can only be consulted in Dutch. This device is used to sharpen the scythe or Flemish scythe blade on the same principle as the whetting anvil and the whetting hammer, but it works faster and easier. [MOT]

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This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pencil?lang=nl>

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The penknife originally served to cut the tip of a quill pen and to scrape away ink stains from parchment or paper, like an eraser knife. It has a narrow, sharp blade measuring between 2.5 cm and 4.5 cm in length. The penknife is now usually a cutting knife, exceptionally with a replaceable blade, which is used for all kinds of purposes, including as a nail knife. A light (approx. 10 g) model, from the Christy Company, contains a blade that can be slid into the handle in four positions to determine the length of the blade. In addition to the large blade, many pocket knives also have a small sharp blade that is used as a pen knife. Not to be confused with the scalpel. [MOT]

This tool desciption is not yet translated from the Dutch version. See also the reflex hammer. [MOT]

Wooden pestle used to press food into the funnel of a grinder (e.g. meat grinder, rotary grater, etc.). The pestle always takes the shape of the funnel of the mill it belongs to. There are cylindrical, conical and parallelepiped-shaped pistils. The cone-shaped pestle is distinguishable from the cone-shaped pestle of the potato mash strainer which is smaller and the mould for cardboard boxes. [MOT]

This text on the pickaxe of a miner can only be consulted in Dutch. [MOT]

A basket maker's picking knife has a wide, curved or semicircular (approx. 4-7 cm) blade with a sharp outside. The basket maker uses the knife to cut off the twigs sticking out of a woven basket. He places the cut on the twig and cuts it off by an axial movement (cf. the curved knife). The picking knife is sometimes replaced by a shoe knife (1). [MOT] (1) AUDIGER: 3; LEROUX & DUCHESNE: 4.

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This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pile-driver?lang=nl>

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pill-dispenser?lang=nl>

The pin lifter is a hand tool used by the shoemaker and upholsterer to pull out nails. It is a small (about 20 cm long) crow bar that sticks into a wooden handle. [MOT]

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The pinch bar

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Leather workers such as the saddler use this hand tool to cut decorative shapes from the leather. It is a steel chisel (approx. 10-15 cm long) without handle with a serrated or corrugated blade that can be flat and flared, semicircular or circular (cf. the punch). The cutting chisel is placed on the leather and hit with a hammer; the desired shape is cut into the leather. [MOT]

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Pinking shears are scissors with thick (approx. 4-7 mm), blunt blades with a triangular serrated edge. When you use it to cut into a piece of fabric, a zigzag notch appears that prevents fraying. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch. See also the pipe bending tongs.

This text can only be consulted in Dutch. See also the pipe bender.

After the drain laddle has been accurately finished off the drain trench, the worker, who remains on the edge of the trench - or across it - can lower the drain pipes with a pipe layer into it and press them against the other.  More technical information on the dutch version of this page. [MOT]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pipe-reamer?lang=nl>

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pipe-reamer-fitter?lang=nl>

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The pitcher is a short, heavy chisel with flattened cutting edge (approx. 4 mm wide) to chop off large pieces of a rough natural stone block as a first operation and thus get a good start for shaping the edge. The stonecutter strikes the pitcher with his stonemason’s hammer. The paviour uses it to break excess pieces of paving tiles and split pavement stones (1). This pitching tool is to be distinguised from the charring chisel and the flat chisel. [MOT] (1) JELLEMA: 38-39.

For his safety and, in artificial climbing, to get higher, the first climber puts hooks in the crevices of the rock; the latter removes them. The first work can be done with a light fist. However, pulling out the hooks is sometimes difficult and various hammers have been devised to facilitate this. All weigh about 500-670g and usually consist of a square face to drive the hooks in, and a curved pin with notch that can be inserted into the eye of the hook. The handle then becomes the power arm of a lever of the first kind, like a claw hammer. Sometimes there is also a hole in the working part, where a carabiner can be picked up. By forming a chain of three carabiners, the last of which is inserted into the eye of the hook, that hook can sometimes be knocked out. The pin or the more or less pointed end of the working part also serves to drive clamping wedges into gaps. The wooden handle was replaced by the metal, which does not come off. Usually a hole is drilled in the end of the stem...

Kitchen utensil with a relatively large (approx. 6-7 cm diameter) and sturdy stainless steel cutting wheel, fixed in a wooden, plastic or aluminum handle that flares out towards the wheel to protect the fingers. With a pizza wheel you can cut a pizza base out of the dough and, when the pizza is baked, you can cut it into slices with it. To be distinguished from the pastry cutting wheel. [MOT]

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