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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]

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

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

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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]

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]

This text can only be consulted in Dutch <https://www.mot.be/resource/Tool/pair-of-outside-callipers?lang=nl>

Metal, wooden, bone, ivory or plastic knife (approx. 20-25 cm long), usually in one piece, with a flat and narrow (approx. 0.5-1 cm) blade that tapers towards the end. The edge is not sharp and the point is relatively blunt. With a paperknife you can easily cut open envelopes and books; it is inserted respectively into the fold of the cover or between two uncut leaves of a book and then cut open along the fold. Sometimes the letter opener is equipped with a pocket knife at the other end. Another paperknife model has a razor-sharp blade (approx. 3 cm) in a rectangular plastic handle, which is no thicker than 4 mm. This type of paperknife is not to be confused with the folder. [MOT]

Vegetables are peeled with a paring knife. It is a small (approx. 16-18 cm) and light (approx. 20-25 gr) knife with a smooth edge, which lies easily in the hand. The blade can take different shapes: it can look like a mini French cook's knife, the edge can be straight or curved, but it always has a sharp point to remove pits. The handle can be wood or plastic. A special model consists of a paring knife with a movable guide. Sometimes the paring knife is combined with a bottleopener. [MOT]

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