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Toenails can easily be cut with nail tongs. As with the pocket nail-clippers, the jaws are sharp. The legs are crossed and sometimes a spring on one of the legs ensures that the tongs open automatically. [MOT]

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The description of the nave borer can only be consulted in dutch.

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The nose twitch consists of a wooden stick - sometimes made of plastic - of about 50 cm with a hole at one end through which a loop of rope (exceptionally a chain) protrudes. The tool is used as a means of coercion to divert the attention of a horse during disturbing (eg eye care) or painful procedures and to induce a calming and sedative effect (cf. humane twitch). With the left hand, the loop is brought over the upper lip of the animal, with the right, the loop is tightened. The same implement is used on cattle, but on an ear (1). [MOT] (1) BERTHELON: 13.

Notching knife of a wood engraver.

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Nuts can be tightened or loosened with nut pliers. The jaws are adapted to the shape of the nut. They grab the nut on four of the six faces. Unlike wrenches, the jaws don't move parallel. Sometimes they are ribbed on the inside for a better grip and the opening can be fixed with a set screw. The pliers cannot then be closed further than the screw allows, so that excessive pressure cannot be exerted on the side surfaces of the nut and thereby damage them. See also combination pliers. [MOT]

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Usually semicircular, but also sometimes completely round elongated metal grater of sheet iron with which nutmegs can be finely grated. These graters have a separate place where the nuts can be stored, usually at the top and closed with a lid. The grater can also be placed in a container in which both the nuts can be stored and in which the finely grated nutmeg can be collected. See also nutmeg mill. [MOT]

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These forceps were sometimes used during childbirth to retrieve a child. Characteristic are the stainless steel, the wide jaws and the short arms. After all, it was not allowed to exert great force on the head. The arms of many forceps were connected without a pivot so that they could easily be taken apart. The physician could then safely push one part of the forceps to the left and the other to the right of the child's head. [MOT]

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The text on the one arm man knife (1) can only be consulted in Dutch. [MOT] (1) BARLOW: 159.

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The ore pick (1) is a hand tool used by dockworkers when unloading a ship's hold or moving bulk cargo such as ores. Compared to various picks, the metal is remarkably long (approx. 60-95 cm) in relation to the wooden handle (approx. 60-75 cm), which is almost at right angles connected in an eye. The pick narrows to a point, which is hammered into the ore to break it free for further scooping. [MOT] (1) The proper name in English is yet unknown. The tool was certainly used by dockers in the port of Antwerp (EECKELAERT: 417).

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Small (approx. 12-13 cm long) fork with three sharp, short (approx. 2-3 cm) teeth with which one can remove oysters from their shells. The teeth are straight or slightly bent inward; usually one tooth has a cut on the outside to cut the oyster loose. The oyster fork can also be provided with a knife at the other end. [MOT]

You can find more technical information about the oyster knife on this page in dutch. [MOT]

Oysters have strong sphincter muscles. To open live oysters, use an oyster knife, an oyster opener or oyster tongs. The latter can take different forms.  One model consists of two-lever tongs of the first type. The mouth is equipped with 2 hollow "blades" with which an opening is "broken" in the edge of the shell. Then, the tip of the longer part is inserted into the opening made. By wringing, the sphincter is cut.  In another model, the mouth opens when the arms are compressed. The blade of this oyster tong is inserted into the oyster. The thumb is protected by a plate. The oyster is opened with the jaws of the tongs. [MOT]

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The house painter and do-it-yourselfer use a pot opener to lift the lid of the hermetically sealed paint cans to allow air to enter and open the can. The paint pot opener is a flat metal rod (approx. 10-15 cm) with the end (approx. 1 cm) folded back and thinned for easier access under the lid. The rod then serves as a lever of the first kind. If the end is not folded over, it will be in the shape of a flat screwdriver and / or hook. Slightly shorter models are provided with a ring to put more pressure, sometimes they are combined with a can pierce or a bottleopener. [MOT]

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Fire tongs can be used to move burning pieces of wood. It is quite long, so that the hands are kept at a sufficient distance from the fire and the burning pieces of wood. The fire tongs are often part of a fireplace set, which can also contain an ash shovel, a fork and a brush. The fire tongs are very different from charcoal tongs, which are lighter and often shorter. It is therefore only intended to take a coal from the fireplace and light the pipe with it. See also the clinker tongs. [MOT]

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The palette knife is a spatula or trowel-shaped tool (approx. 15-20 cm long) with a flexible blade along its entire length that the painter uses to mix dyes on the palette and to apply paint to the canvas (1). The spatula-shaped ones can be made of metal, wood or plastic and are also used to scrape off wet paint with the side of the blade without damaging the canvas. The trowel-shaped ones have a metal blade whose shape and size (approx. 3-12 cm long; approx. 3-4 cm wide) vary greatly: it can be triangular, diamond-shaped, oval or rectangular - with or without rounded corners - attached to a straight handle. The latter are mainly used to apply small dots or wide stripes of paint to the canvas. The palette knife with narrow, rectangular blade is also available as a pocket knife. Then it is a useful tool for testing colors. The house painter also uses a larger spatula-shaped tempering knife, the blade of which is about 15-30 cm long, to mix paint. [MOT] (1) With the advantage that new layers...

Hand tool that the bookbinder uses to decorate and gild leather-bound books. It has a T-shaped, often copper blade, the narrow (about a few mm) end of which is slightly curved and provided with a fillet motif, fixed in a wooden handle. After heating, the pallet is pressed on the (gilded) leather to obtain a fillet pattern. See also the type holder. [MOT]

With a pan scrubber you can clean dirty pans or pots while washing. It consists of a scouring pad made of galvanized iron mesh or steel wool, which may or may not be attached to a plastic handle.See also the sink brush for dishwashing. [MOT]

Rare plastic U-shaped pliers (approx. 10 cm long) that can be squeezed shut. For example, a pancake can be grasped this way to be eaten. This tool can be distinguished from the strawberry huller and print tongs of a photographer. [MOT]

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Knife with a long (approx. 30 cm), spatula-shaped blade with a rectangular cut in section, attached to a straight handle. It is used to strip wallpaper glued in along the edge of the pasting table from the selvedge. For this purpose, a thin metal strip was applied to the long side of the table. See also the wallpaper knife and the paper hanger's casing knife. [MOT]