tool chest
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2.9
- noun
- /tuːl tʃɛst/
:
cofre de herramientas
- He organized all his hand tools neatly inside a tool chest in the garage.
Examples
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Before starting the project, she checked her tool chest for the necessary equipment.
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We have this huge black tool chest that could be eliminated.
Blog text (11) -
I put a chisel away today and found yet another argument for using the tool chest.
Blog text (20) -
In my personal view, if you don't have the right equipment for the job and a tool chest to store it, you just cannot do it right.
Blog text (25) -
One of the other things I bought recently was a tool chest to store some of my hand tools in the garage (and keep them separate from my dad's stuff).
Blog text (8) -
He opened his tool chest and handed you a red rubber plunger with a wooden handle, a technological marvel that hadn't changed in thousands of years.
Fiction book (1999) -
The tool chest was filled with all kinds of tools, from hammers to screwdrivers.
Synonyms
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1.1
A box used to store and carry hand tools like hammers
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2.3
A cabinet or box that stores hand tools like screwdrivers and wrenches
A box for keeping hand tools like screwdrivers or wrenches
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a box for storing tools' is directly and compositionally derived from 'tool' (handheld implement) + 'chest' (a box or storage piece of furniture). This noun–noun compound follows a common, transparent compounding pattern found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Tool chest comes from the image of a carpenter carrying a wooden chest full of tools. Because each tool had its own place inside, a tool chest today means a box or cabinet used to 'store' and 'organize' hand tools.