A crossword exploring antique and obsolete tools and instruments once vital to craftsmanship and daily tasks.
Forgotten Artifacts of Old Craftsmanship
A crossword exploring vintage and obsolete tools and instruments once essential in traditional trades and crafts.
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- 1. Holder for wax light source, predating electric lamps
- 2. Manual tool used to bore holes before electric drills
- 3. Weight used to regulate clocks before electronic timing
- 4. Method of shorthand writing using symbols
- 6. Craftsman who made arrows by hand
- 11. Metal measuring instrument, often rust-resistant but now less common in crafts
- 14. Navigation instrument used to measure angles between celestial objects
- 16. Ancient counting tool made of beads on wires
- 17. Type of mechanical mechanism requiring manual resetting
- 18. Spiked device scattered to hinder movement, historically used in warfare
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- 5. Feather pen used for writing before modern pens
- 7. Tool used to spin thread or yarn from fibers
- 8. Traditional wooden plough used before mechanized farming
- 9. Machine used for pressing or wringing laundry
- 10. Person or machine arranging movable type for printing
- 12. Machine used in printing to cast lines of type mechanically
- 13. Ancient device used to solve problems related to time and the position of the stars
- 15. Ancient method of recording numbers or accounts by marks
- 19. Old firearm ignition mechanism using sparks from flint
- 20. Device that tells time by casting a shadow from the sun
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