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Mainspring :: Mainspring (n.) The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action..

Cabbling :: Cabbling (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron..

Forge :: Forge (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy..

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

Hammerman :: Hammerman (n.) A hammerer; a forgeman.

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

Tilt-mill :: Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on..

Planish :: Planish (v.) To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer..

Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..

Hammerer :: Hammerer (n.) One who works with a hammer.

Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing..

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

Malleable :: Malleable (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals..

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

Forging :: Forging (n.) The act of shaping metal by hammering or pressing.

Tilt :: Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary..

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

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Hewn :: Hewn (a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone..

Yellowhammer :: Yellowhammer (n.) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark..

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