toolmaking

noun

tool·​mak·​ing ˈtül-ˌmā-kiŋ 

: the action, process, or art of making tools

also : the trade of a toolmaker

Examples of toolmaking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Based on a new analysis of stone toolmaking, two researchers are arguing that the ability is relatively recent, dating to just 600,000 years ago. —John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024

The researchers use a number of examples: the toolmaking done by our primate relatives, asking unskilled humans to make a stone tool, and random chipping of rocks. —John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024

But big brains require a lot of cooling, and so developing a robust cooling system was important to advancing other skills, such as toolmaking. —Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023

And so, too, are the tools from the cave, which were made using the Mousterian toolmaking techniques that the European Neanderthals shared amongst themselves. —Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above