toolmaking

English

Etymology

From tool +‎ making.

Noun

toolmaking (uncountable)

  1. The art or craft of a toolmaker; the manufacture of tools.
    • 2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 1 October 2014:
      Either that, or “you have two different groups of hominins with two totally different toolmaking traditions occupying the same landscape at the same time yet never intermixing,” said the study’s lead author, Daniel Adler, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut.

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