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Fuller :: Fuller (a.) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser..

Shingling :: Shingling (n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron..

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock..

Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hamme.

Goldfinch :: Goldfinch (n.) The yellow-hammer.

About-sledge :: About-sledge (n.) The largest hammer used by smiths.

Yellowhammer :: Yellowhammer (n.) The flicker.

Refractory :: Refractory (a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore..

Monkey :: Monkey (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging..

Hammer-harden :: Hammer-harden (v. t.) To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state..

Improvise :: Improvise (v. t.) To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone..

Puddle-ball :: Puddle-ball (n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods..

Peen :: Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation..

Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out.

Loop :: Loop (n.) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them..

Puddle-bar :: Puddle-bar (n.) An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

Cock :: Cock (n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.

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