massicot

From the name of Guillaume Massiquot (1797-1870), the inventor of the machine. Previously the common noun was also spelt massiquot.

guillotine, a machine for cutting paper and sheet metal


pic

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin pīcus.


gouge

Inherited from Old French gouge, from Latin gulbia (Late Latin gubia), of Gaulish or Basque origins.


ouvre-boîtes

ouvre-boîtes (plural)
ouvre-boîte (alternative)
ouvre-boite (alternative)


niveau

→ Danish: niveau

→ Dutch: niveau

→ German: Niveau

→ Norwegian Bokmål: nivå

→ Romanian: nivel

→ Serbo-Croatian: nivo

→ Swedish: nivå

→ Turkish: nivo

→ Yiddish: ניוואָ (nivo)

Inherited from Old French nivel, livel, from Vulgar Latin *libellus m, from Latin lībella f. Cognate with English level and Portuguese nível.

Il faut complèter ce niveau pour gagner l'épée magique.

You have to complete this level to earn the magic sword.


merlin

splitting maul: an axe with a long handle, the blade of which is coupled with a broad side that can be used as a sledgehammer


ultramicroscope

fr-noun

ultramicroscope m (plural ultramicroscopes)


siphon

→ German: Siphon
→ Czech: sifon

→ Romanian: sifon

From Middle French siphon, from Old French sifon, from Latin sīphō from Ancient Greek σίφων (síphōn, “pipe, tube”), of unknown ultimate origin.


fléau

Inherited from Old French flaiel, flael, flayau, inherited from Latin flagellum.

La haine en ligne est un fléau d’une immense ampleur.

2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde:

Online hatred is a scourge of immense scale.

a scourge; a curse, a calamity or a plague

(mechanics) the beam of a mechanical balance


échelle

Inherited from Old French eschale, inherited from Latin scāla. Doublet of escale.


étau

From Middle French estau, estot (“vise”, 16th c.). Probably from Old French estoc (“trunk”), from Frankish *stokk; compare German Schraubstock. If so, a doublet of estoc. Alternatively, a doublet of étal instead, but the Middle French form in -ot makes this appear less likely, particularly as the same spelling also occurs for estoc in other senses.

vise, vice (instrument consisting of two jaws for holding work)


hameçon

Inherited from Old French ameçon, a derivative of Old French aim, from Latin hāmus (“hook”).


tire-bouchon

tire-bouchons (plural)
tirebouchon (alternative)

→ Bulgarian: тирбушо́н (tirbušón)

→ Catalan: tirabuixó

→ Romanian: tirbușon

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: تیربوشون (tirbuşon), طرابشون (terabeşon), թիրպուշօն (tirbuşon) — Armeno-Turkish
Turkish: tirbuşon

corkscrew (to pull corks out of bottles)


fourche

fourché

→ English: fourche, fourchee

Inherited from Old French furche, forche, from Latin furca (“pitchfork”).


tournevis

→ Catalan: tornavís

→ Chadian Arabic: ترنبيس (tarnabīs)

→ Khmer: ទួរណឺវិស (tuənəvɨh)

→ Luxembourgish: Tournevis

→ Vietnamese: tuốc-nơ-vít

→ Iraqi Arabic: درنفيس

From tourner + vis; compare Piedmontese tornavis.


règle

→ Persian: رگل (regl)

Inherited from Middle French regle, from Late Old French regle (13th c.), borrowed from Latin regula. Displaced the earlier borrowing Old French riule, reule (whence English rule). Compare also the inherited Old French reille (whence English rail). Doublet of rail, reille, rigole, and rille.

doublet

La règle du Roi Henry


charrue

Inherited from Old French, from Latin carrūca (“Gaulish cart”), from carrus, from Transalpine Gaulish.

(Quebec) snow plow (US), snow plough (UK)


bêche

From Middle French bêche, besche, from Old French besche, from Late Latin besca, bescia, from Frankish *bikkju (“pickaxe, spade”).


râteau

Inherited from Old French rastel, from Latin rastellus, diminutive of raster.

Je me suis encore pris un râteau.

(figurative) rebuke, rejection, blow off, knockback


cognée

From Latin cuneāta, from cuneātus, perfect passive participle of cuneō (“fasten with wedges, make wedge-shaped; force in”), from cuneus (“wedge, wedge shape”).


ciseau

Inherited from Old French cisel, chisel, from Vulgar Latin *cisellum < *caesellum, from Latin caesus, from caedō. Compare Occitan cisèl, Catalan cisell, Italian cesello, Portuguese cinzel, Spanish cincel.


chalumeau

→ English: chalumeau

desc

→ North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)

→ Turkish: şalümo

Inherited from Old French chalemel, from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”). Doublet of caramel.

oxy-fuel torch (usually oxy-acetylene; used for cutting, welding, etc.)


marteau

marteaux (plural)
martel (alternative archaic)

→ Chadian Arabic: مرتو (marto)

Inherited from Middle French marteau m, from a back-formation from Old French marteaus (ca. 1140), plural of martel, from Late Latin martellus, from martulus, variant form of marculus, diminutive of Latin marcus, or from malleus.

a hammer-shaped tool used to hit something, such as a gavel


sauterelle

⇒ Catalan: santanell

→ English: sauterelle

(masonry) sauterelle (instrument to trace and form angles)


pioche

→ Chadian Arabic: پييس (piyēs)


serpe

Inherited from Old French serpe, from Vulgar Latin *sarpa, from Latin sarpō. Compare Medieval Latin sarpa.

billhook, pruning hook, sickle (agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants)


boussole

→ Arabic: بوصلة (būṣṣula)

Egyptian Arabic: بوصلة (buṣṣla)

→ Romanian: busolă


corbeau

fr-noun

corbeau m (plural corbeaux, feminine corbelle)

→ English: corbeau

Inherited from Middle French corbeau m, from Old French corbel m, itself either a diminutive of corp m (“raven”), or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus m, from Latin corvus m (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus m).


tronçonneuse

chainsaw (saw with a power driven chain)


taraud

Alteration of tareau, with change of suffix.


marteau-piqueur

marteau-piqueur m (plural marteaux-piqueurs)


besaiguë

besaiguës (plural)
besaigüe (alternative)
bésaigüe (alternative dated)
bisaiguë (alternative)
bisaigüe (alternative)

From Old French besagües, biesagüe, from Vulgar Latin (ascia) bisacuta, from Latin bis + acūta (“double-edged”). Compare Italian bisacuto.

(carpentry) large, long-handled twibill with a broad chisel and a mortise chisel for cutting mortises


boucharde

→ Galician: buxarda

→ Italian: bocciarda

→ Portuguese: bujarda

→ Spanish: bujarda

Inherited from Middle French, of Germanic origin, from or related to German pochen (“to thump”) + -ard.


casse-noix

From casse (“breaks”, third-person singular present indicative of casser (“to break”)) + noix (“nut”), literally “[that which] breaks nut”.

compound

third-person singular present indicative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">casser</i> (“to break”)


casse-noisette

fr-noun

casse-noisette f (plural casse-noisettes)

From casse (“breaks”, third-person singular present indicative of casser (“to break”)) + noisette (“hazelnut”), literally “[that which] breaks hazelnut”.


équerre

Inherited from Old French esquarre (“square”), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, deverbal of *exquadrō, exquadrāre (whence French équarrir), from Latin quadrus, quadra. Compare Italian squadra. Doublet of escadre and square.


rabot

A diminutive of Middle Dutch robbe (“rabbit”), of the family of German Robbe (“seal”) and English rabbit. Displaced in Old French plaine from Latin plāna (“plane”).


entonnoir

Je remplis la bouteille à l'aide d'un entonnoir.

I fill the bottle with the help of a funnel.


reille

From Old French reille, from Latin regula. Cognate with English rail and rule. Doublet of rail (from English), règle (a semi-learned borrowing), rigole (via Middle Dutch), and rille (from Old French).

an old type of simple triangular or diamond-shaped ploughshare


vilebrequin

→ Catalan: filaberquí

→ Spanish: berbiquí

→ Portuguese: berbequim, virabrequim

Inherited from Middle French wembelkin, from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn, diminutive of wimmel (“drill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to turn”).


enclume

Inherited from Old French anclume, from Latin incūs, incūdem, through a variant Vulgar Latin form *incūdō, incūdinem (compare Italian incudine). The intrusive -l- probably influenced by Latin inclūdō.


truelle

From Late Latin truella, from Latin trulla.


pincette

→ Danish: pincet

→ Dutch: pincet

→ Japanese: ピンセット

→ German: Pinzette

→ Polish: pęseta

From pince + -ette, as diminutive of pince. Compare Italian pinzetta.


soufflet

From souffler + -et. Compare Italian soffietto.


planeur

→ Romanian: planor n

→ Turkish: planör


araire

From Middle French araire (1443), a borrowing from Occitan araire, from Latin arātrum. Compare the inherited Old French arere, which had fallen out of use in favour of charrue.


métier à tisser

fr-noun

métier à tisser m (plural métiers à tisser)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-métier à tisser.wav


hapchot

(regional) hatchet, small axe (as traditionally used in Landes of Gascony)


vrille

Inherited from Old French verille, ve(d)ille, from Vulgar Latin *vĭtīcula, from Late Latin vītīcula, from Classical Latin vītĭcula.


fendoir

cleaver (a squarish knife used for hacking)


faucille

Inherited from Old French falcille, from Late Latin falcīcula, from Latin falcem. Compare Norman faûcil'ye.


tenaille

From Vulgar Latin tenacula, taken as a feminine singular of Latin tenaculum, from teneō. Compare Occitan and Portuguese tenalha.


râble

From Old French raable, reable, from Latin rutābulum.

stoker, poker (for hot coals); salt-worker's rake


échoppe

From Old French eschople < eschaupre, eschalpre, from Latin scalprum. Compare Spanish escoplo, Portuguese escopro.

a type of chisel with a flat or rounded side used by engravers to efface


binette

hoe (agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade)


bigorne

From Old Occitan bigorna, from Latin bicornis. Doublet of bicorne.


perforateur

fr-adj

perforateur (feminine perforatrice, masculine plural perforateurs, feminine plural perforatrices)

perforatrice (feminine)
perforateurs (masculine plural)
perforatrices (feminine plural)


astic

From Picard estiquier, a descendant of Old French estiquer, estechier (compare French étiquette), from Frankish *stekan, *stikkan, *stikjan (“to stick, pierce, sting”).


tarière

Ultimately from Late Latin taratrum, attested by Isidore of Seville. Either from Paleo-Hispanic or from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-. Alternatively from Ancient Greek τέρετρον (téretron, “borer, gimlet”).
Cognate with Portuguese trado and Spanish taladro.

der

auger (carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet)


clé à molette

clés à molette (plural)
clef à molette (alternative)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-clé à molette.wav


fil à plomb

→ Vietnamese: lập loòng


échardonnoir

On opère les sarclages soit avec la main, soit avec divers instruments, tels que les échardonnoirs, les ratissoirs, les binettes, les houes, les sarcloirs, etc.

1855, Achille Richard, Dictionnaire raisonné d'agriculture, page 524:


plioir

folding-bone, folding-stick, bone folder


disqueuse

En effet, ce week-end, l’automate a été scié à sa base à l’aide d’une disqueuse, le rendant totalement inopérant.

2020 September 15, “Vaucluse: le radar à nouveau détruit”, in La Provence:

Indeed, this weekend, the machine was sawed off at its base with an angle grinder, rendering it completely inoperative.


pince à dénuder

fr-noun

pince à dénuder f (plural pinces à dénuder)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-pince à dénuder.wav


coupe-boulons

coupe-boulons (plural)
coupe-boulon (alternative)


pince-monseigneur

pince-monseigneur f (plural pinces-monseigneur)

From pince (“pincer, pliers”) + monseigneur. The French Academy gives the following explanation to explain the term: because ironically it was said that all doors open in front of high-ranking people.


touret à meuler

touret à meuler m (plural tourets à meuler)

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-touret à meuler.wav


meuleuse d'angle

meuleuse d'angle f (plural meuleuses d'angle)


scie à chaîne

(Quebec) chainsaw (saw with a power driven chain)


pigache

→ English: pigache

Latin: pigacia, pigatia

C'est un pigache, mossieu le Comte: la pince de droite est plus longue que l’autre, et recourbée!

1978, Henri Vincenot, La Billebaude, page 47:

(hunting) hoofprint of a wild boar longer on one side than the other

(historical) pigache, style of medieval shoe with an elongated toe


boëtte

Borrowed from Breton boued, from Middle Breton boet, from Old Breton boit-ol-ion, from Proto-Brythonic *buɨd, from Proto-Celtic *beitom, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃tom, from *gʷeyh₃-.


plantoir

(horticulture) dib, dibber, dibble, dibbler (pointed implement)


chadouf

Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic شادوف (šadūf).

bor+

shadoof (ancient device used to gather water)