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To lay drainage pipes, a trench is first dug one or two stitches deep (and approx. 50-60 cm wide) with the garden spade and the spade. After the loose soil that the spade has not been able to absorb has been removed with a masonry shovel, also with a kind of flat drain laddle, the trench is brought to depth with the narrow drain spade. Finally, with the drain laddle, the bottom of the trench is finished very accurately and at the required slope, so that the pipes can be placed on it (see pipe layer); the worker is standing next to the slot. [MOT]

Hand tool used by the shoeing-smith to trim the tail beyond the tailbone of draft horses (1). It is tang-shaped with relatively long (approx. 30-40 cm) arms, with or without wooden handles. One jaw is cut in a U-shape and is hollow so that the cutting blade fits on the other jaw; exceptionally it is made of wood (2). The tail is cut just after the sacrum so that it cannot grow back. The wound is burned out with a cauterizing iron. [MOT] (1) N.L.I .: s.v. brûle-queue, reports that the horse's tail was cut off after it suffered a stroke. (2) STOQUART: 23.

Hand tool with which the last bits of dough are scraped from the baking trough. It is a metal tool with a wide-flared or square blade that is perpendicular to the metal handle (1). See also the dough grater. [MOT] (1) In Great Britain you can also find dough scrapers with a tang or with a socket and wooden handle.

The draw bore pin serves to pull together heavy mortise and tenon joints. It is an iron cone-shaped bar of about 20-30 cm on which a wing with a hole is forged. More technical information on this page in dutch. See also the peg of emergency. [MOT]

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

The dowel plate is to be distinguished from the nail header.This text can only be consulted in Dutch.

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

A drawing awl is an approx. 30-40 cm long awl with a hole in the tip, through which a cord can be inserted. The harness maker, saddler, mattress maker and seat maker use this hand tool when sewing thick objects. According to the Osborne catalog, the butcher used a drawing awl to bind ham (1). [MOT] (1) OSBORNE: 49. The butcher's tool is called ham stringer.

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

Chalk in the shape of a flat square (from 5 by 5 cm; thickness approx. 0.8 cm) block to properly mark fits. It comes in different colors (white, yellow, red and blue), does not rub off on the hands and can be easily tapped.Sometimes the dressmaker's chalk is put in a chalk holder, with sharp edge to sharpen the chalk (1). [MOT](1) See MIDGLEY & LAWTHER: 280.