edge tool

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English egge tool. === Noun === edge tool (plural edge tools) (archaic) A tool or weapon with a sharpened edge or blade. 1577, Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: John Hunne, Volume 2, “Of the Marueyles of Englande,” Chapter 18,[1] There is a Well […] in Wales, which is sayde to double or trible, the force of any edge toole that is quenched in the same. c. 1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The Honest Man’s Fortune, Act II, Scene 1, in Comedies and tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1647, [2] I am glad he’s gon, for I do not love to see a sword drawn in the hand of a man that lookes so furious, ther’s no jesting with edge tooles, how say you Captaine?