Hammer break

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• Hammer

  ·noun The <<Malleus>>. II. Hammer ·vt To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating. III. Ha...

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• Hammer

  1) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of ...

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• hammer

  The shipwright's hammer is a well-known tool for driving nails and clenching bolts, differing from h...

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• Break

  ·noun ·see <<Commutator>>. II. Break ·vi To fall out; to terminate friendship. III. Break ·vi To b...

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• break

  1) to break, to tear. Harnp. In this county break is used for tear, and tear for break ; as, I have ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• break

  The sudden rise of a deck when not flush; when the aft, and sometimes the fore part, of a vessel's d...

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• Gold-hammer

  ·noun The yellow-hammer. ...

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• Hammer lock

  ·add. ·- A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his op...

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• Hammer-beam

  ·noun A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not...

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• Hammer-dressed

  ·adj Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; — said of building s...

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• Hammer-harden

  ·vt To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state. ...

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• Hammer-less

  ·adj Without a visible hammer; — said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and o...

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• Tilt hammer

  ·- A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or ...

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• Trip hammer

  ·- A tilt hammer. ...

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• Water hammer

  ·- A concussion, or blow, made by water in striking, as against the sides of a pipe or vessel contai...

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• Hammer Court

  West out of Minories. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-Lond. Guide, 1758). Former name : "Hamersmith...

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• yellow-hammer

  (Picus auratus. Wilson, Ornith.) The popular name of the Golden-winged Woodpecker, the most beautifu...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• detonating hammer

  A modern introduction into the Royal Navy for firing the guns. With the aid of an attached laniard, ...

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• fore-hammer

  The sledge-hammer which strikes the iron on the anvil first, if it be heavy work, but the hand-hamme...

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• Break-circuit

  ·noun A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. ...

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• Break-up

  ·noun Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly...

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• To-break

  ·vt To break completely; to break in pieces. ...

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• Wind-break

  ·noun A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind. II. Wind-break ·vt To br...

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• break, to

  To deprive of commission, warrant, or rating, by court-martial. ...

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• break-beams

  Beams introduced at the break of a deck, or any sudden termination of planking. ...

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• break-bulk

  To open the hold, to begin unloading and disposing of the goods therein, under legal provisions. ...

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• break-ground

  Beginning to weigh, or to lift the anchor from the bottom. On shore it means to begin the works for ...

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• break-off

  (See broken-off) "She breaks off from her course," applied only when the wind will not allow of ke...

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• break-water

  Any erection or object so placed as to prevent the sea from rolling inwards. Where there is no mole ...

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• hammer and tongs

  In a noisy, furious manner. Thus, 'They went at it hammer and tongs,' is said of persons quarrelling...

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• hammer-headed shark

  The Zygæna malleus, a strange, ugly shark. The eyes are situated at the extremities of the hammer-sh...

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• Make and break

  ·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. ...

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• break-teeth words

  Hard words, difficult to pronounce. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to break up land

  To plough up land that has lain long as a meadow, is the sense as understood in the United States. I...

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• break-sheer, to

  When a ship at anchor is laid in a proper position to keep clear of her anchor, but is forced by the...

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• break-up, to

  To take a ship to pieces when she becomes old and unserviceable. ...

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• sheer, to break

  To deviate from that position, and thereby risk fouling the anchor. Thus a vessel riding with short ...

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• break one's horn-book

  to incur displeasure. South. ...

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• hammer, of a gun-lock

  Formerly the steel covering of the pan from which the flint of the cock struck sparks on to the prim...

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