A garden-tool is a class of human-made implements designed for the specific tasks of garden cultivation: soil preparation (trowels, spades, cultivators), planting (dibbers, seed drills), weeding (hoes, weed forks), pruning (secateurs, pruning saws), and harvesting (garden forks, snips). Defined by its functional range — implements whose primary design purpose serves garden-scale work on soil and plants — and distinguished from agricultural machinery by manual operation and small-scale application. Persists through trade catalogs, manufacturing standards, retail categorization, and the practical taxonomy of horticultural practice. [formal: instrumentum | substrate: matter | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
Accepted ontology entry
garden-tool
A garden-tool is a class of human-made implements designed for the specific tasks of garden cultivation: soil preparation (trowels, spades, cultivators), planting (dibbers, seed drills), weeding (hoes, weed forks), pruning (secateurs, prun…
Definition
Why it is in scope
A human-made category of implements specifically designed for garden work — soil cultivation, planting, weeding, pruning, and harvesting. Built to persist through trade catalogs, tool manufacturing, and the sustained practice of gardening.
Names and aliases
- garden-toolen · CANONICAL
Relations from this entry
- hand-toolINSTANCE_OF →
garden-tool is a kind of hand-tool: its accepted definition distinguishes the class from agricultural machinery BY manual operation ('distinguished from agricultural machinery by manual operation and small-scale applicability'), and every member (hoes, trowels, secateurs) has the hand as prime mover — hand-scaled graspable form, working end shaped for the task, force applied by grip/push/pull/chop. Pinned sense: class-level kind relation — the garden-tool class sits within the hand-powered implement class. Law 9 specific->general; nearest-kind test: hand-tool is the nearest existing general class above garden-tool (no intermediate 'manually-operated-tool' rung exists in the record).
Relations to this entry
- cmro4l63303xld1nl9439v138← INSTANCE_OF
A garden hoe is a specific kind of garden tool used for soil cultivation, weeding, and harvesting. A competent speaker would call a garden hoe a type of garden tool.
- cms82n0vu00nih6s8dvukqit4← INSTANCE_OF
A garden-rake IS a specific kind of garden-tool: it is a garden implement with tines for specific horticultural tasks. A competent speaker calls it 'a garden tool.' Direction files specific→general. The nearest kind is garden-tool (not tool), which avoids the leap over the ladder (Law 11e).
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- Jul 30, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC
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