tooled
SayTOOLDUS/tuld/UK/tuːld/
- 1Past tense and past participle of tool. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
The craftsman tooled the leather into a smooth belt.
She tooled the design into the cover by hand last week.
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- 2
- 3Marked with a pattern pressed into the surface.
Like a pattern pressed into soft clay with a stamp.
The old book had a tooled leather cover with gold patterns.
He made a tooled wallet with his initials pressed into it.
Similarembossed
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tooled is a form of tool
tool, verb: To shape or decorate something with tools, like making patterns in leather. Full entry
- Spelling
- tool → tooled: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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Origin
From the word "tool" plus "-ed".