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

This hand tool is used to squeeze half slices or wedges of lemon or lime. Especially with tea, these tongs are offered together with the lemon slice. The disc is placed between the jaws of the forceps and the arms are pressed closed. The juice flows into the cup through the drain. Usually these pliers are made of metal. Like the lemon reamer, it serves to obtain only a few drops of juice. See also this lemon squeezer. [MOT]

Small and light digging fork for crumbling the soil around trees and shrubs in the garden. It is also suitable for working in borders, flower beds and planters. Sports grass pitch maintainers use this fork to allow water to penetrate into moist areas of a lawn by poking holes in the ground to make the field suitable for playing.   This tool can be distinguished from the weeding fork that has a shorter (approx. 15-20 cm) stem and is therefore used while squatting. [MOT]

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

The lock mortise chisel is a curved chisel to hollow out small holes such as lock mortises. The bevel is very sharp to offer as little resistance as possible. [MOT]

English translation in progress. You can find more technical information about the legget of a thatcher on this page in dutch. [MOT]

Glass tool that closely resembles a small grindstone for pigment or a stamper, used to smooth linnen and, among other things, embroidery; the work surface is convex or has rounded corners. Just like the ironing wood, you do not heat the linnen smoother. [MOT]

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

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

"Machete" is a general term for a hand tool that is used daily in Latin and South America, Central Africa and Southeast Asia, including as a billhook. The tool is indispensable on the cocoa, coffee and sugarcane plantations, on the corn fields, in the hemp or sisal cultivation (1), but it is also an all-round tool par excellence. After all, with the machete you can also mow grass (2), chop cassava stems and peel cassava tubers, harvest bamboo, fell thin trees, cut your way in the jungle or in thorny vegetation, cut down coconuts, skin killed animals, cut meat and fish, dig tubers out of the ground, peel trees as with the strip drawing knife (3), etc.; it is also used as a weapon (4). The machete has a long (25 to 75 cm) metal blade (5). The back is straight or slightly concave, the cut is straight or rounded towards the tip (6). The blade can be 3 to 10 cm wide and cuts on one, exceptionally on both sides. The handle is made of wood, leather, rubber or plastic. Sometimes there is a hole...