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Rail-splitter's tool
Answer for the clue "Rail-splitter's tool ", 4 letters:
froe
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A froe (or frow ) or shake axe is a tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain. It is an L-shaped tool, used by hammering one edge of its blade into the end of a piece of wood in the direction of the grain, then twisting the blade in the wood ...
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Etymology 1 n. a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block Etymology 2 n. A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
Usage examples of froe.
As if he had heard the words, Froe asserted, "I'm not giving her one copper shard of mine.
A block of wood sat constantly by the fire, the froe stuck through it, ready for anyone with an idle moment to strike off a few more shingles.
The armored spearmen forced citizens away from Garric and Liane the way a froe splits shakes from a cedar log.
I collected the most valuable of the hand tools—the froe and drawing knife by the sawhorse, the foot adze and broadaxe by the sections of split cedar—stowed them in the old hogpen, and walked into the forest.
Faster, even, if Captain Throckmorton might find me some more hands who can tell a froe from a hammer.