I believe you are talking about dies and taps- which have a sort of inward cut Maltese Cross appearance, or cloverlead appearance in the stock, which is placed in a holder- and the job begun.
In general a female thread is cut with a tap. A male thread is cut with a die.
The third one of the Fates; her name is Atropos.
Nona, Decima and Morta, the goddesses of fate
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