Word Meanings - ABOUT-SLEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

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• HAMMER LOCK
  A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.
• HAMMERER
  One who works with a hammer.
• HAMMER
  That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. Also, a person of thing that
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• HAMMER-LESS
  Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
• HAMMERABLE
  Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. Sherwood.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• HAMMERKOP
  A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
• HAMMER BREAK
  An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.
• HAMMERMAN
  A hammerer; a forgeman.
• HAMMER-DRESSED
  Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
• HAMMER-BEAM
  A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a
• HAMMERCLOTH
  The cloth which covers a coach box. (more info) + E. cloth; or perh.
• HAMMERHEAD
  A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygæna, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygæna is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
• HAMMER-HARDEN
  To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
• GOLD-HAMMER
  The yellow-hammer.
• BUSHHAMMER
  A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.
• YELLOWHAMMER
  A common European finch . The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and
• TRIP HAMMER
  A tilt hammer.
• PATENT-HAMMERED
  Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
• WATER HAMMER
  1. A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer. 2. A concussion, or blow, made by water
• NINNYHAMMER
  A simpleton; a silly person. Addison.
• TILT HAMMER
  A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.