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Nail puller is a general term for different levers and pliers for pulling out nails. The heavy versions are used by the shipwright, the lighter ones mainly to open boxes. The lever can be compared to the crowbar. For the same purpose the pincers or claw hammer are used by the carpenter. [MOT]

Hand tool for mixing, shoveling and spreading mortar over stones, walls, floors, ceilings, etc. It is also used to chop off stones and to collect the falling mortar during grouting. It consists of a rounded or pointed metal blade attached to a short straight handle with a bent stem. The blade is usually quite large (approx. 16-19 cm / 10-15 cm), in contrast to the blade of the plasterer's trowel. [MOT]

A small (approx. 10-15 cm long), spherical (approx. 1.5 cm diameter) wooden spoon with which mustard powder can be served (1). For serving mustard in pasta form, there are wooden, bone, ceramic, metal mustard spatulas or spoons. [MOT] (1) According to CAMPBELL: 126, this spoon is used as a salt spoon.

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

With the nail driver you can drive small nails without a hammer. It consists of a metal hollow shaft with spring mechanism that sticks into a wooden or plastic handle. The nail is inserted into the hollow shaft. By giving a firm blow to the head - which is wider and rounded - by hand, the nail goes into the material in one movement. [MOT]

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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.

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