Meanings
nountoolmaking (uncountable)
- uncountableThe art or craft of a toolmaker; the manufacture of tools.
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.
2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014
Origin
- Englishtool
- Old Englishmacung
- Middle Englishmaking
- Englishmaking
- Englishtoolmaking
Translations
Hungarian szerszámkészítés
- szerszámkészítésmanufacture of tools
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APA
toolmaking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toolmaking
MLA
“toolmaking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toolmaking. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “toolmaking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toolmaking.
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