▪ I. tooled, a.
[f. tool n. + -ed2.]
In parasynthetic comb.: Having or furnished with a tool.
| 1577 Grange Golden Aphrod. M ij, Priapus the great tooled god. 1935 [see middle leg s.v. middle a. 6]. |
▪ II. tooled, ppl. a.
(tuːld)
[f. tool v. + -ed1.]
1. Worked or shaped with a tool; spec. in Bookbinding: see tool v. 1 b.
| 1815 [see tooling 2]. 1837 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 72/1 Tooling is also practised upon wall stones, when they cost as much as common hewing or tooled work. 1856 Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh viii. 895 A copy bound in scarlet silk, Tooled edges, blazoned with the arms of Leigh. 1893 Q. Rev. July 200 Specimens of their handiwork in tooled morocco. |
2. tooled up: equipped with an offensive weapon. slang.
| 1959 Observer 1 Mar. 10/1 They sit in all-night cafés, ‘tooled up’ sometimes with knives and ‘choppers’ and crank handles. 1973 Time Out 2–8 Mar. 13/2 They had knives, chains, house-bricks, iron bars, and everything. We weren't tooled up, because we were coming out of school, and so couldn't get ready properly. 1982 J. Barnett Marked for Destruction v. 58 Smith brandished the shotgun..to let the minder know he was tooled up. |