Yet another account is that it derives from the French word for an engraving tool, not the engine turning machine.

The right was poised with a small engraving tool between its fingers.

Fitting a magnifying lens to his right eye, he used a tiny-pointed engraving tool and scratched a microscopic message on a half dollar.

Then he produced an engraving tool.

Many local police departments or sheriff's offices will lend a simple engraving tool to homeowners without charge, and some insurance companies give them away.

But I foresaw that and brought my engraving tools with me.

Figures were engraved into the marble using a hammer and an engraving tool.

"An engraving tool from north Florida".

Cranston realized that the tool was an engraving tool.

Often local police stations will lend the homeowner an electric engraving tool.