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

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 <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pineapple-wedger?lang=nl>

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

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

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.

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

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]

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.

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