tool

Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.

A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.

Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

the tools of the trade

Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.

Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.

Idleness is a tool of the devil.

A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.

A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.

The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.

a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk

A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.

She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.

He was a tool of a foreign influence operation.

To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.

To equip with tools.

To work very hard.

Do this lab and read this book, now tool, one and all, And be sure and pass that final quiz or be screwed right to the wall.

To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.

Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.

To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.