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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tooled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tooled up
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I sat snug in the tooled leather saddle, the reins lying easily in one hand.
▪ In another, a chair by Carlos Bugatti, all walnut, tooled vellum and burnished pewter, glowed a dusty bronze.
▪ Therefore, there was no need to apply a tooled finish all over.
▪ They came in tooled leather, they came gilded and embossed and with special paper made in Florence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
tooled

Tool \Tool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tooled; p. pr. & vb. n. tooling.]

  1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. ``Elaborately tooled.''
    --Ld. Lytton.

  2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang, Eng.]

Wiktionary
tooled
  1. 1 Worked with a tool. 2 (context bookbinding English) impressed with an ornamental design. v

  2. (en-past of: tool)

Usage examples of "tooled".

After studying it for a moment, Asey closed the book and thoughtfully surveyed the rather ornately tooled backstrip, and the stamped date - 1892.

Charles Cameron had provided himself with a magnificent library, of which at least a third was devoted to works of erotology in several languages, handsomely bound in buckram, tooled leather and hand-canvas, for his leisurely perusal.

When I came back from the kitchen she was sitting cross-legged on a tooled leather pouffe, brooding over the ivory and ebony chessboard.

He dressed like any other aircraft mechanic except for the stainless-steel autopistol tied to his leg in a fancifully tooled and equally greasy holster.

Sir Thomas Browne, in full crushed Levant morocco, the backstrips tooled in gilt with wonderful ingenuity and grace.

He held calfskin gloves casually in one hand, and at his waist rode a sword in a richly tooled sheath bearing the mark of the silver tree.

France, and is described as covered with gilt leather, tooled with mauresque work.

They tooled over the brick-paved road past row after row of warehousesa testament to Ontarian perseverance.

A young man wearing a tooled tunican and vest was standing beside him, leaning over the desk with a data-pad and speaking in a low voice.

The shaft was also pockmarked with hundreds of tiny hexagons that appeared to be finely tooled and scattered at random.

His calf-length boots were tooled leather, and the helmet Carus had fitted him with had wings and thunderbolts cast into the bronze.

She hummed softly under her breath as she paused to inspect a table of hand tooled boots but decided breaking in a new pair was too painful and the old worn ones she had found at Sierra Vieja would do just fine.

Thaxter came to Zarathustra ten years earlier, he had tooled around with some small-time rackets, set up some crooked labor unions and a couple of marketing cooperatives to put the squeeze on planters.

But, idly, she ran her fingers over the spines of the books fined up on the shelves, and pulled down one that had an interestingly tooled binding.

As he tooled his curricle at a smart pace on his way north, with only his tiger, Bladen, for company, he felt again an unsettling restlessness that even the promise of excellent shooting and the thought of comfortable evenings spent with his friends did not lessen.