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Quotation dates: 1645
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Under-tool, n. [Towl(e n.] A lesser, or less important, tool. —1645 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 623.
We see hewn stones, timber, and an hundred scattered parcels and pieces of an house, all under-tools, hammers, and axes, and saws