Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See peen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See peen.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of peen.

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Examples

  • Here, the verb ateri follows the object mler in a clause introduced by in-pein 'where, at which'.

    Etruscan syntactic inversion 2010

  • So invective is the wrecking-ball to satire's ball-pein hammer.

    ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical ccfinlay 2007

  • Mmmmm I dunno, it looks like a giant ball-pein hammer to me.

    "An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents' £1million mansion in Berkshire." Ann Althouse 2009

  • I do not purchase a ball-pein hammer when the job requires a claw-hammer, as I would not buy an SUV when a smaller more economical vehicle would suffice.

    Must the entity comprising car and driver try to avoid having a split personality? Ann Althouse 2005

  • Hammer with a flat hammer on one side and a round ball (hence 'ball pein) on the other.

    Hammers roland 2005

  • Although, I say one thing about Legendre, he was convicted right here in Las Vegas in Nevada for kidnapping and attempting to murder a cab driver and he beat that guy almost to death with a ball pein hammer.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2005 2005

  • I tend to use the flat face of my handy-dandy ball pein, but there are times when the angles are useful ....

    Hammers roland 2005

  • Works the same as the straight-pein, but you get to hold the piece being worked at a 90 degree angle from the straight-pein.

    Hammers roland 2005

  • Cawmill of Clenlyon, Cod curse him! came to her pedside; and he'll say to her, 'MacDhonuill,' he said, for pein 'a tead man he would pe knowing my name, --' MacDhonuill, 'he said,' what tid you'll pe meaning py turking my posterity? '

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • "Dey will like one anot'er all de petter for pein 'a little tifferent, den," answered the Colonel, drily.

    Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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