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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy forge hammer having a pivoted lever by which it is tilted up and then allowed to drop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., a power machine-tool for hammering, forging, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tilted hammer ; a heavy hammer, used inironworking , lifted or tilted byprojections orwipers on a revolving shaft; atrip hammer .
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