Hammer-dressed

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• Dressed

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Dress>>. ...

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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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• Top-dressed

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of Top-dress. ...

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• fantastically dressed

  with more rags than ribands. ...

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• Gold-hammer

  ·noun The yellow-hammer. ...

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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 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-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...

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• 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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• 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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• 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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