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Hammer
·noun The <<Malleus>>.
II. Hammer ·vt To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
III. Ha...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hammer
1) Heb. pattish, used by gold-beaters (Isa. 41:7) and by quarry-men (Jer. 23:29). Metaphorically of ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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hammer
The shipwright's hammer is a well-known tool for driving nails and clenching bolts, differing from h...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Lock
·noun A grapple in wrestling.
II. Lock ·noun A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
III. Lock ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lock
The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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lock
1) A scheme, a mode. I must fight that lock; I must try that scheme.
2) Character. He stood a queer...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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lock!
an exclamation of surprise ; as, what! heyday! Exm.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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lock
I.
The striking instrument by which fire is produced for the discharge of a gun, containing the co...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Lock
Where European locks have not been introduced, the locks of eastern houses are usually of wood, and ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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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Gold-hammer
·noun The yellow-hammer.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hammer break
·add. ·- An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating ham...
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hammer Court
West out of Minories. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Former name : "Hamersmith...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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.
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detonating hammer
A modern introduction into the Royal Navy for firing the guns. With the aid of an attached laniard, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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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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Double-lock
·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hip lock
·add. ·- A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip.
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Lock hospital
·- A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
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Lock step
·- A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lock stitch
·- A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by s...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lock-down
·noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting;
— used by lumbermen.
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Lock-weir
·noun A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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lock hospital
An hospital for venereal patients.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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soap-lock
A lock of hair made to lie smooth by soaping it. Hence also a name given to a low set of fellows who...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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black-lock
A trout thought to be peculiar to Lough Melvin, on the west of Ireland.
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fire-lock
Formerly the common name for a musket; the fire-arm carried by a foot-soldier, marine, or small-arm ...
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lock, to
To entangle the lower yards when tacking.
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lock-fast
A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms.
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wheel-lock
A small machine attached to the old musket for producing sparks of fire.
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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...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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lock up house
A spunging house; a public house kept by sheriff's officers, to which they convey the persons they h...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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lock, stock, and barrel
The whole. A figurative expression borrowed from sportsmen, and having reference to a gun.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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lock, stock, and barrel
An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole.
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