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Flatter :: Flatter (n.) A flat-faced fulling hammer.

Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp..

Tilter :: Tilter (n.) One who operates a tilt hammer.

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

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

Yeldrine :: Yeldrine (n.) The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin..

Repousse :: Repousse (a.) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal..

Stonebuck :: Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters; as, St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..

Bucker :: Bucker (n.) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.

Double-faced :: Double-faced (a.) Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer..

Clinkstone :: Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite..

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..

Yeorling :: Yeorling (n.) The European yellow-hammer.

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

Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..

Set :: Set (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece..

Thump :: Thump (n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like..

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..

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