Tool use and language are highly refined human abilities which may show neural commonalitiesdue to their potential reciprocal interaction during evolution. Recent work provided evidence for shared neural resources between tool use and syntax. However, whether activity within the tool-use network also contributes to semantic neural representations of tool nouns remains untested. Tothis aim, we identified the tool-use planning network with fMRI while participants used pliers.The very same participants underwent a semantic priming task including two categories, tool nouns and animal nouns, to highlight the respective underlying networks. With multivariateanalyses of the activation neural patterns, we tested whether activity in tool-use brain clusters takespart to the neural representation of tool nouns compared to animal nouns. The results revealed thatword semantic categories were decoded within the left OTC activated by preparing to use a tool, with similar patterns of brain activity for words within the same category. In addition, in the samearea, neural activations for tool nouns were found to be higher than those for animal nouns. Thesefindings suggest that activity in tool-use related brain areas encodes semantic informationseparately for tool nouns and animal nouns, thus supporting the embodiment of tool-noun processing in the tool-use sensorimotor network.