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  • adjective shaped in the form of a hammer

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Examples

  • There was also a patch, with the stylized hammer-shaped symbol of Kosmograd.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • Divers lucky enough to catch the sight say it's like a living curtain of sharks, their hammer-shaped heads lending an otherworldly feel.

    Dive Time 2009

  • But my favorite SW toy was--for some unknown reason--Hammerhead, the background extra in the New Hope Cantina who had, well, a hammer-shaped head.

    LEGO® STAR WARS The Visual Dictionary 10.10.09 Launch! Jayf 2009

  • Illustration: Joe Corroney Gallery: The New Star Wars Videogame Unleashes the Force in You A Sliver of the Star Wars Galaxy On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene.

    Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop 2008

  • Wallace's fast eye-brain-lexicon-hand coordination lets him crank out small wonders at a fearsome rate: a tennis player whose narrow face has a "rodentially patrician" look, a field of "hammer-shaped" off derricks "bobbing fellatially."

    And Now, Infinite Scoop 2008

  • Could have been low blood sugar on my part — but even with food in me, it looks to be hammer-shaped.

    dis ur kid? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Hovering only feet below the illuminated surface, armies of sleek, dark forms swam in parallel against the current, their unmistakable hammer-shaped skulls wagging back and forth as if to the beat of some prehistoric rhythm.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • Hovering only feet below the illuminated surface, armies of sleek, dark forms swam in parallel against the current, their unmistakable hammer-shaped skulls wagging back and forth as if to the beat of some prehistoric rhythm.

    Deception Point Dan Brown 2001

  • Tornec held the painted scapula in an upright position, and tapped it in various places with the hammer-shaped implement made of antler, adjusting the position slightly.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

  • With a hammer-shaped section of an antler, Mamut was beating on the skull of a mammoth, painted with geometric lines and symbols.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

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